Roaming in NY

HarryD

Anyone know do Vodafone PAYG allow roaming in USA ?
USA is not listed on their website as a roaming spot, but my
friend was able to use his phone out there..

Also, I know a tri-band phone is needed for USA, but I heard
that dual-band phones will work in certain metropolitan areas.
Anyone know is this true ?
I wudda thought tha FCC have strict rules on this..
If not anyone lend me a 6310 for a week

Thanks for any help,
Ray.

Rabies

I saw on some vodafone leaflet yesterday that you can hire a verizon (spelling?) mobile in the states and use your own sim card it if you don't have a triband phone

detritus

Hi

Recent trip to NYC and both AT&T and Cingular worked fine for roaming (only Cingular supported GPRS roaming)

As far as I know only bill pay (Pay Monthly) customers can roam in the US, if you are referring to PAYG as the ready to go offering?

eoinm1

Hi

Just to repeat, AT&T wireless and Cingular are the only GSM networks in New York.

I think Verizon works on CDMA networks.

By the way if your stuck you can buy a pre pay offering from Cingular in much the same way as here. But with at&t you have to sign up for a pre pay with a bank draft / credit card payment.


Eóin

jesus_thats_gre

Vodafone prepaid customers cannot raom in the US.

DannyD

Yip, I was in NYC recently and as a pre paid Vodafone customer I couldn't roam.

dicey

Originally posted by eoinm1
Hi

Just to repeat, AT&T wireless and Cingular are the only GSM networks in New York.

Eóin

Incorrect - VoiceStream (aka T-Mobile) also operate in NYC - my brother had a GSM phone from them when he was living there.

dicey

Originally posted by HarryD

Also, I know a tri-band phone is needed for USA, but I heard
that dual-band phones will work in certain metropolitan areas.
Anyone know is this true ?

Dual band (900/1800MHz) doesn't work in NYC - at least mine wouldn't. I hired a phone from a place, which if I remember correctly was just off Madison Ave on 47th St or thereabouts, but its over a year and a half ago so I could be wrong. It was $8 a day for the hire - just stick your own sim card in it. There was also a $200 or $300 deposit on it.

http://www.citidex.com/2511.htm has some places that will hire out phones if you're looking

eoinm1

Originally posted by dicey
Incorrect - VoiceStream (aka T-Mobile) also operate in NYC - my brother had a GSM phone from them when he was living there.

Yes Sorry I forgot about them.

sirlinux

If you are going for any amount of time, or are a regular traveler get a second hand TDMA phone of craigslist or something (any old AT&T phone basically) then check out this crowd:

http://www.ecallplus.com/index.html

It will save you a fortune, plus tdma coverage is excellent compared to GSM, the biggest problwm with GSM in the states is that all the operators have all but stopped rolling out 1900 base stations favouring 850 ones, so you need a quad band phone now for the US!!! Not many of those about, i think motorola make the only one on sale in europe.