international cell phone: What, why where, types, real and Comedy

In the old days it was more sensible to rent but as prices fall it may be more viable to buy if you are a consistent traveller, across the atlantic, or pacific.

Real Uses

When an American leaves North America, the ordinary cellphone does not work, due to an incompatibility between the American (USA ansd Canada) cellphone system and the GSM system universally adopted elsewhere.

A phone can work on other companies services if there is a cross billing roaming agreement between companies. Roaming is common in the USA, but is problematic internationally.

Almost everywhere in the world, except for the USA and Canada, uses a GSM type digital cellphone service.

International cell phone rental is useful if you want a phone you cannot afford to buy but require temporarily. It maybe have features that you require.

A Dual Band Phones could cover the USA and other areas of the business empire.

Your phone might not work abroad.

Services from a company may work differently ranging from an international cell phone, or satellite phone to the Roaming Service Bureau platform that mediates and translates different wireless standards for wireless network operators.

Dual Band Phones

Dual band phones can cover GSM networks in pairs such as 900 and 1800 MHz frequencies (Europe, Asia, Australia and Brazil) or 850 and 1900 (North America).

Triple Band Phones

support the GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz bands (sold in Europe, Asia, and Africa), or alternatively the 850/1800/1900 bands (commonly sold in the Americas). Various countries use different frequency bands for their mobile networks, and a tri band phone can be used on three bands, generally speaking, chosen to favour two of the home country's bands, and one for roaming in other countries.

Multiband Phones Quad Band Phones

Quad band means four bands. Most people come across the term when it is used to describe a GSM mobile phone. The GSM standard originated in Europe, where mobile phones occupy two frequency bands: one in the 900-MHz range and one in the 1800-MHz range. When GSM technology crossed the Atlantic to the Americas, it was impossible to reuse the same European frequency bands since those had already been allocated to other devices by the FCC. Hence, a different pair of frequency bands were made available for GSM use: the 850 and 1900-MHz bands.

US GSM Service

It is very desirable that the phone be unlocked - to allow any SIM from any service provider, anywhere to be used in it.

To pretend to be someone other than you, put on a foreign accent, pretend to be in a foreign nation, play foreign music in background

If you are on a space shuttle you will require one for when you cross over different hemispheres.

If you are trying to cross the Atlantic on a hot air balloon you require one.

A cheaper way is to buy a european phone and a USAphone. To talk to someone you have to talk into your European phone and then listen to them on your USA phone

In the USA embassy you have to use a USA phone.

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