International Phone

I am looking for a Sprint Phone that will work in Europe, Japan, Korea and
the USA. So far I am getting conflicting infomation. It seems like will
need to move to at least two other companies and have at least two phones.

Any suggestions?

Dave

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Check woth your travel agent.
For Europe SprintPCS is the most expensive way to go. Europe uses GSM and no
SprintPCS phone works on a GSM system.

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 08:03:20 GMT, "David Gillooly"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>I am looking for a Sprint Phone that will work in Europe, Japan, Korea and
>the USA. So far I am getting conflicting infomation. It seems like will
>need to move to at least two other companies and have at least two phones.
>
>Any suggestions?

Since Japan and Korea never have had 2G GSM, you'll have to get a
different phone for Japan and a different phone for Korea. So there's
two phones just for those two countries.

It's going to be a few years before there's a single "universal"
phone, unfortunately.

The company I work for has largely standardized on Sprint for U.S.
employees. For those traveling international, Sprint does have a
tri-band model that they will sell the corporate cusstomer that gets
some degree of coverage in parts of Asia and Europe but with virtually
no coverage in Latin America. We've found that Nextel does a much
better job of handling the world.

Dave



"David Gillooly" <[email protected]> wrote:

>I am looking for a Sprint Phone that will work in Europe, Japan, Korea and
>the USA. So far I am getting conflicting infomation. It seems like will
>need to move to at least two other companies and have at least two phones.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Dave
>
>

Thanks for the feedback. Looks like there is not an "ideal" situation.

"Dave.US" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> The company I work for has largely standardized on Sprint for U.S.
> employees. For those traveling international, Sprint does have a
> tri-band model that they will sell the corporate cusstomer that gets
> some degree of coverage in parts of Asia and Europe but with virtually
> no coverage in Latin America. We've found that Nextel does a much
> better job of handling the world.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> "David Gillooly" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >I am looking for a Sprint Phone that will work in Europe, Japan, Korea
and
> >the USA. So far I am getting conflicting infomation. It seems like will
> >need to move to at least two other companies and have at least two
phones.
> >
> >Any suggestions?
> >
> >Dave
> >
> >
>

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Phill's basically right. You have to rent a GSM phone from=20
us. That *can* be done, but it's far from the cheapest way=20
to go. The only advantage, really, that it provides is to=20
keep all charges on your SPCS bill so maybe they're easier=20
to account for.

You'll need to check with our International Roaming team to=20
discuss the costs involved, although Customer Care=20
advocates can, at least, tell you what the per-minute=20
charges will be.

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O/Siris
I work for SprintPCS
I *don't* speak for them.

Four areas... Three cell systems.

Europe is GSM (different frequencies than USA).
US is CDMA and GSM.
Korea is CDMA (same frequencies as USA)
Japan has their own systems - none of which are compatible with anyone
elses.

You will need at least three phones, possibly 4 because the roaming
situation between Korea and the USA is confused at best.

Stu
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David Gillooly wrote:

> I am looking for a Sprint Phone that will work in Europe, Japan, Korea and
> the USA. So far I am getting conflicting infomation. It seems like will
> need to move to at least two other companies and have at least two phones.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Dave
>
>
>