Purchase US GSM phone for use in Germany?

[Charlie]

Originally Posted by inquisitor

What confuses people is AWS because of the huge offset between its uplink and downlink frequencies, so neither calling it UMTS1700 or UMTS2100 or UMTS 1900 (which is approximately the middle between up- and downlink) gives you an idea of the actually used frequencies. And when youc call it UMTS1700/2100 people may think you refer to two different UMTS frequency bands.

Thank you both for clearing this up for me on the frequencies, and the good news that the phone will work!

So the only last confusion is the unlocking the phone!

I understand this to be the # code T-mobile gives you so you can use other carrier sim cards? Right?