850MHz or 900MHz? AT&T or TMobile?

[Lowell Higley]

I bought a tri-band phone while I lived in Europe.  It is 900Mhz/1900Mhz.  I
had no problems with it on T-Mobile's USA network while I was their
customer.  I tend to buy my phones is Asia or Europe because they are
unlocked and usually not crippled.  T-Mobile in particular likes to
artificially limit their phones.  For example, they will limit SMS messages
to say 30 characters when that is not the technological limit.  My theory is
they do this to increase the number text messages sent so they can get you
to buy a more expensive SMS plan or charge you the 10 cents per message
overage charge.

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 7:07 PM, feydreva <feydreva at lsu.fr> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I do have almost the same question...
>
> I live in US, but I m european, and goes back there very often, plan on
> comming back to europe in less than a year
>
> I am with T-mobile, and from what I heard/read, T-mobile in US  is
> mainly 1900 Mhz.
> So, I i have a 1900/900 phone in US, will I really suffer from not
> having the 850 Mhz ?
> Does T-mobile US really uses the 850 Mhz
>
> Openmoko really need to be a Quad-band phone....
> Is there any plans for it ?
>
> Regards
> Philippe
>
> On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 07:28 -0500, Adam Hough wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 04:02 -0700, Ajit Natarajan wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > A question from a cell phone newbie.
> > >
> > > I understand that the Freerunner will come in two varieties: 850MHz
> and
> > > 900MHz.  I live in the Silicon Valley in California.  My work zip is
> > > 95014 (Cupertino) and my home zip is 95008 (Campbell).  In and around
> > > these areas is where I expect to be most of the time.
> > >
> > > Should I get the 850MHz version phone or the 900MHz?
> > >
> > > Which would be the better provider for this area: AT&T or TMobile?
> > >
> > > If I should RTFM, please send me a pointer to where I should look to
> get
> > > my answers.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > Ajit
> > >
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> >
> > Most likely you want to get the 850Mhz version because as far as I know
> > there is no 900Mhz GSM frequency band in use in the US.
> >
> > http://www.gsmworld.com/roaming/gsminfo/cou_us.shtml
> >
> >
>
>
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