European Nokia 6230 in the US

hi, I have a problem with my Nokia 6230, maybe one of you can help me
out.
I just moved from Europe to the US, taking the Nokia 6230 I purchased
one year ago in Europe with me. I started a contract with T-Mobile here
in the US. The problem: People who have Sprint or Verizon as their
service provider cannot call me! I have no problem receiving calls from
T-Mobile or Cingular people though. I suspect this has something to do
with the former being CDMA networks and the latter being GSM networks.
But as the Nokia 6230 is a tri-band-phone it should be working, right?
Making calls from my phone to anyone works fine. But when Verizon or
Sprint people try to call me, a tiny telephone symbol appears for a
split-second in the top left corner of my Nokia's display, and that's
it, no ringing, no chance to pick up. The callers hears message like
"subscriber is out of the covered area" or something, they can't even
leave a voice message. (They can leave a message though when I turn off
my phone, which is weird.)
I talked to Nokia and T-Mobile, and both say, it's not their problem.
What can I do? Is my phone just not suited for the US, is it broken or
do I just have to change some setting?
Thanks for your help.

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> "elcano" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> hi, I have a problem with my Nokia 6230, maybe one of you can help me
> out.
> I just moved from Europe to the US, taking the Nokia 6230 I purchased
> one year ago in Europe with me. I started a contract with T-Mobile here
> in the US. The problem: People who have Sprint or Verizon as their
> service provider cannot call me! I have no problem receiving calls from
> T-Mobile or Cingular people though. I suspect this has something to do
> with the former being CDMA networks and the latter being GSM networks.
> But as the Nokia 6230 is a tri-band-phone it should be working, right?
> Making calls from my phone to anyone works fine. But when Verizon or
> Sprint people try to call me, a tiny telephone symbol appears for a
> split-second in the top left corner of my Nokia's display, and that's
> it, no ringing, no chance to pick up. The callers hears message like
> "subscriber is out of the covered area" or something, they can't even
> leave a voice message. (They can leave a message though when I turn off
> my phone, which is weird.)
> I talked to Nokia and T-Mobile, and both say, it's not their problem.
> What can I do? Is my phone just not suited for the US, is it broken or
> do I just have to change some setting?
> Thanks for your help.

Isn't the frequency used for the phones slightly different from the U.S. and
Europe? I would like to buy the Nokia N93, but I believe it runs at 900,
1600 or some such megahertz frequencies in Europe and they are something
like 850, 1550 etc. in the U.S. Dunno, but I do know that some providers
cripple the phones for Bluetooth (that be Verizon) in the U.S. since some
with cars that couple to Bluetooth phones cannot use Verizon phones in their
cars (i.e Toyota Prius comes to mind).

Of course, I may be all wrong....

B~

hi again,
two things:
- I checked the SIM card. If I put the T-Mobile SIM card in a US phone,
everything works fine. If I put my Austrian SIM card in my Austrian
Nokia here in the US, I get the same problem again. That's why T-Mobile
says, it's not their problem
- It appears that some landline phones can't call me either.
This is getting stranger and stranger...

elcano wrote:
> hi again,
> two things:
> - I checked the SIM card. If I put the T-Mobile SIM card in a US phone,
> everything works fine. If I put my Austrian SIM card in my Austrian
> Nokia here in the US, I get the same problem again. That's why T-Mobile
> says, it's not their problem
> - It appears that some landline phones can't call me either.
> This is getting stranger and stranger...

Try a U.S. phone that's 1900 Mhz only. I think you'll have the same problem.