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6230b & Italy, Will It Work?
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Posted by: inurb

I had a world phone v600 and I had no issues swapping in an Italian SIM card and using it over in Italy. I know that the 6230b is triband but I'm not 100% sure on what bands Italy uses. Do you think the phone will be able to find any towers over there or should I buy another world phone?

Thanks, you guys always seem to know what you're talking about so I thought I'd ask in the cingular forum..

Posted by: Serifan

Yes, it'll work, but only on the 1800MHz band. Still, your V600 is the better choice, since it will take advantage of both the 900MHz and 1800MHz bands.

Posted by: gregsmith59

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Originally Posted by inurb

I had a world phone v600 and I had no issues swapping in an Italian SIM card and using it over in Italy. I know that the 6230b is triband but I'm not 100% sure on what bands Italy uses. Do you think the phone will be able to find any towers over there or should I buy another world phone?

Thanks, you guys always seem to know what you're talking about so I thought I'd ask in the cingular forum..

You can research this yourself at GSM World:

http://www.gsmworld.com/roaming/gsminfo/index.shtml

Teach a man to fish ...

Posted by: Mango808

It will work as posted, as I used mine there and did have okay coverage. I still went with using my quadband V551 and my triband V60ig (900/1800/1900Mhz) to maximize my coverage on both 900/1800Mhz bands though.

By the way the 6230b is still considered a world phone since it does have the 1800Mhz band. Good for Western Europe since 1800Mhz is as prominent as the 900Mhz there, but not so well in Eastern Europe (at least where I had gone).

Posted by: inurb

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Originally Posted by Mango808

It will work as posted, as I used mine there and did have okay coverage. I still went with using my quadband V551 and my triband V60ig (900/1800/1900Mhz) to maximize my coverage on both 900/1800Mhz bands though.

By the way the 6230b is still considered a world phone since it does have the 1800Mhz band. Good for Western Europe since 1800Mhz is as prominent as the 900Mhz there, but not so well in Eastern Europe (at least where I had gone).

I never knew the 6230b was considered a world phone. Thanks for the info

Posted by: Mango808

Whether it has 850/1800/1900Mhz, 900/1800/1900Mhz or 850/900/1900Mhz, any GSM phone that has at least 3 of the frequency bands is considered a world phone. The reason is that the phone can be used in just about any country that may have at least one of the frequencies.

However, a general concensus is that a quadband is a more fully capable world phone due to it having the four main GSM frequencies used.

Posted by: gregsmith59

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Originally Posted by Mango808

Whether it has 850/1800/1900Mhz, 900/1800/1900Mhz or 850/900/1900Mhz, any GSM phone that has at least 3 of the frequency bands is considered a world phone. The reason is that the phone can be used in just about any country that may have at least one of the frequencies.

However, a general concensus is that a quadband is a more fully capable world phone due to it having the four main GSM frequencies used.

I believe there was even a dual band Nokia world phone - 900/1900. At the time it came out it could probably be used in just about every GSM country in the world, since those were the first bands in the Americas and Rest of World respectively.

Posted by: Mango808

Some of T-Mobile's phones were like that such as the Samsungs E105, E715, D415. They only had the 900/1900Mhz bands on them. The E715 and D415 though were really triband 900/1800/1900MHz, but the firmware blocked/disabled the 1800Mhz part of the receiver.