please help! unlocked triband phone, vodafone SIM not workingin Australia
JJ wrote:
>(and I'm attached to my
> little nokia 6230! thanks for any help! Jo Ann
>
Your problem is that the 6230 isn't a world phone. It lacks the most
common non-North America GSM band, 900 MHz.
There are a lot of these pseudo-world phones around, the Motorola V3xx
is another.
What happened is that chip sets that support 1800 and 1900 MHz, plus a
choice of 850 MHz or 900 MHz are cheaper than quad band chip sets.
You end up with the worst of both worlds. A European/Asian/Australian
6230 is 900/1800/1900 and lacks 850Mhz, the most widely used North
American frequency, while the North American 6230 is 850/1800/1900 lacks
900 MHz, the most widely used European and Asian frequency.
These tri-band chip sets became popular when the only GSM band in North
America was 1900 MHz, since back then a 900/1800/1900 covered all bases.
If you want one phone to use worldwide, you need a quad band phone, it's
as simple as that. You might get lucky in Europe/Asia/Australia and find
some 1800 MHz coverage, but invariably it is the newer carriers that
have poorer coverage.
Steve
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