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| Thread ID: 44749 | 2004-04-29 03:55:00 | OT: What is GSM band 850 used for? | nomad (3693) | Press F1 |
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| 232915 | 2004-04-29 03:55:00 | I had a look at the Motorola V525 it has quad band of 850, 900, 1800 and 1900. What is the 850 for? Also anyway to used a NZ cellphone in Japan? I have read Vodafone Japan hires a 3G cellphone which takes a foreign simcard .. Any way of using a NZ phone and using a foreign sim card or have it be tuned there for taht? |
nomad (3693) | ||
| 232916 | 2004-04-29 06:47:00 | nomad, all this info is readily available on Google. Basically Japan does not use GSM. It uses an older PDC system (a 2G system, like TDMA) and a newer 3G W-CDMA. So, based on that your phone simply would not operate on the Japanese system(s). But, I suggest you read up on it in Google. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 232917 | 2004-04-29 09:50:00 | 900MHz and 1800MHz are for Europe and Asia/Pacific regions. 850MHz and 1900MHz are for North America. 1900MHz is the main band used in North America, but 850MHz was introduced recently so that networks migrating from TDMA/AMPS to GSM could continue to use their existing frequencies. As a result, usage of GSM 850 is increasing over there. |
Alasta (1420) | ||
| 232918 | 2004-04-29 11:11:00 | Hi Nomad This is Quad Band model and it is a design, so that this phone can goto everywhere in the world (except Japan and Korea) in about 850MHz.. i don't think u will used that because it is used only solely on China, (except the inner China area), those places do required to use 850MHz frequency... For GSM, 900, 1800 is the most common frequency around the GSM region, (Europe, Asia, Pacific) for GSM 1900, it is used widely around the US region... I hope this detail information will be able to help you!!! Jacky |
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