Tri-band Without 900 Useless? - Page 3

AndreA · 20-06-2006, 11:18

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Originally Posted by Effendi

- Rome, Florence, Venice: she must use Wind, coverage should be good. Probably no coverage (or weak) moving from one city to another

Exactly. Weak coverage moving from a city to another one.

In the center of Rome, Florence and Venice you'll have full 1800 coverage, but going out you'll find expecially 900Mhz (Wind, too). Expecially outside Rome and Florence (Chianti, Valdarno, Mugello), it's better in Veneto where 1800Mhz are normal between Venice and Verona.

traveldad · 22-07-2006, 22:20

thanks again to all who responded. i wanted to provide some feedback.

recap: my daughter was to travel throughout western europe for about a month. she had an unlocked us tri-band cell and an "international" sim. we were concerned about the extent of coverage she would have without the 900 gsm band.

she ended up sticking with her us tri-band with the understanding that she would buy a cheap dual-band gsm in europe if needed. the sim was a united mobile sim and she used callbackworld, too.

fast-forward to present: she's been in europe not quite two weeks. after she acclimated to the double callback, coverage seemed ok in london. they were located in the hyde park area and visited the sites nearby. some calls had a "tinny" or "cyborg" (not sure how to describe) sound to them as if only part of the signal was getting through. a hangup and redial usually corrected the problem.

she had some problems on the train from lille to paris, calls that wouldn't connect. although we were able to get a couple of calls through. paris was clear as a bell. (she was quite impressed with the bastille day fireworks at the eiffel tower!) couldn't get any calls to connect on the train between paris and nice. i'm not sure where the train was during our attempts. coverage in nice was excellant. they were somewhere in the area of the palace of finance? her cell was a lifesaver when one of the girls got lost.

unfortunately we didn't test any calls on the train from nice to rome. they are located very close to termini station and coverage has been great in rome. (she was overwhelmed by st peters. her comment was, "these people have money!") they are due to travel to florence on monday. (although she may stay in rome as she has informed me that she has had "the best pasta she has ever tasted in her life".) seriously, florence is on monday, then on to venice, then on to the swiss alps.

overall we have been very satisfied with using the us tri-band with the um sim. callbackworld was also good until their system crashed on wednesday (she was in nice at the time). we haven't been able to use callbackworld since then. apparantly their system backups have not been able to restore any accounts that have signed up within the last few weeks.

all in all my daughter has had a wonderful time and that is in large part due to the fine advice that all of you have been so kind to give. thank you.

Triband81 · 23-07-2006, 01:39

That's exactly what we hope to achieve...: to help out where we can

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traveldad (Offline) Junior Member Newbie Posts: 8 Join Date: 23 Jan 2006 Location: Arkansas USA Country:	22-07-2006, 22:20 thanks again to all who responded. i wanted to provide some feedback. recap: my daughter was to travel throughout western europe for about a month. she had an unlocked us tri-band cell and an "international" sim. we were concerned about the extent of coverage she would have without the 900 gsm band. she ended up sticking with her us tri-band with the understanding that she would buy a cheap dual-band gsm in europe if needed. the sim was a united mobile sim and she used callbackworld, too. fast-forward to present: she's been in europe not quite two weeks. after she acclimated to the double callback, coverage seemed ok in london. they were located in the hyde park area and visited the sites nearby. some calls had a "tinny" or "cyborg" (not sure how to describe) sound to them as if only part of the signal was getting through. a hangup and redial usually corrected the problem. she had some problems on the train from lille to paris, calls that wouldn't connect. although we were able to get a couple of calls through. paris was clear as a bell. (she was quite impressed with the bastille day fireworks at the eiffel tower!) couldn't get any calls to connect on the train between paris and nice. i'm not sure where the train was during our attempts. coverage in nice was excellant. they were somewhere in the area of the palace of finance? her cell was a lifesaver when one of the girls got lost. unfortunately we didn't test any calls on the train from nice to rome. they are located very close to termini station and coverage has been great in rome. (she was overwhelmed by st peters. her comment was, "these people have money!") they are due to travel to florence on monday. (although she may stay in rome as she has informed me that she has had "the best pasta she has ever tasted in her life".) seriously, florence is on monday, then on to venice, then on to the swiss alps. overall we have been very satisfied with using the us tri-band with the um sim. callbackworld was also good until their system crashed on wednesday (she was in nice at the time). we haven't been able to use callbackworld since then. apparantly their system backups have not been able to restore any accounts that have signed up within the last few weeks. all in all my daughter has had a wonderful time and that is in large part due to the fine advice that all of you have been so kind to give. thank you.

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Triband81 (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Pioneer Posts: 529 Join Date: 01 Dec 2004 Location: Köln Country:	23-07-2006, 01:39 That's exactly what we hope to achieve...: to help out where we can