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| Thread ID: 128414 | 2012-12-18 21:00:00 | Still - cellphone frequencies? | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
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| 1319038 | 2012-12-18 21:00:00 | In the so too long ago past we generally stereotyped the USA phones and the European/Asian phones that were more suited to the Vodafone or the Telecom networks. Is this still the case? | Nomad (952) | ||
| 1319039 | 2012-12-18 21:17:00 | In the so too long ago past we generally stereotyped the USA phones and the European/Asian phones that were more suited to the Vodafone or the Telecom networks. Is this still the case? Yes. Different telcos around the world have access to different frequencies, which makes it a PITA when you're importing a phone |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1319040 | 2012-12-18 21:50:00 | Quad band phones like the S3 work on all NZ networks, others work on one or the other. I always forget which frequencies are which but it definately pays to check when buying a new phone. Vodafone and 2Degrees tend to work on most imported phones as they have historically used the more common international standard. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1319041 | 2012-12-18 22:35:00 | Yeah a bit of info on the frequencies here when I was looking at the older Galaxy series phones: www.c2s.co.nz As mentioned though the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S3 / HTC One X / Google Nexus 4 all work on any of the NZ networks. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1319042 | 2012-12-18 23:22:00 | Branching out of NZ, if we mainly see EU or Asia, are the American sourced phones still good there? Or would a EU/Asian phone have access to more teleco's? Or are is that irrelevant now with the high end phones? | Nomad (952) | ||
| 1319043 | 2012-12-18 23:48:00 | Fones from AT&T (make sure it's not locked first) will work here on Telecom fine and in the metro areas of Voda and 2D. If you see one with the T-Mobile logo I would steer clear of it as at works it will be AWS (1700 up and 2100 down) and may also now have 1900 bands. Will have limited use here apart from the 2100 band. Asian fones seem to trend towards only having the 2100 band only. European sourced generally have 900 and 2100 bands. As Chill said the current crop of top end fones seem to lean toward quadbad which means they will work on anyone in NZ. Here is a good staring point but do take some of the info with a grain of salt as it seems to be European in outlook. http://www.gsmarena.com/ |
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