Tri Band , Quad Band , Help Here Please

[ibrovic]

Hey all:

I am new over here and seeking for your help.

I just got a brand new phone Nokia 6288 , it is a bad ___ phone i really love it , I got it from Jerusalem Israel , now I unlocked through my company over there , and i put my at&t sim card inside the phone, and i get no service , i tried to change the network , but it keeps telling me no network coverage, now i know the phone i have is Tri Band, i have a blackberrry Quad band , and works fine here where i am , but the nokia won't get any signal!!!

Is there a way i could get it to work in my place the only band in Tri Band phones missing is 850, i don't know if AT&T operates on 850Mhz in my area , because thats the band missing from the nokia but the blackerry got it . Is there a way i could get my nokia working? If i took it to AT&T store would they fix it , is it the sim problem(It works fine on my blackberry) , or is there something manual i can do on the phone to make it work. Can i change the nokia to be Quad Band and operate, i really want to use this Nokia , it is way better than my Blackberry 7105T.


Please Please Help , tell me there is a solution to my problem

Oh i live in Indiana right now to be specific in North Manchester, 40 minutes away from Fort Wayne

[RadioRaiders]

Sorry, but I think your are SOL In the USA if your phone doesn't have 850MHz you're going to get really spotty coverage, especially in rural areas. Drive around with the phone and see where you can find some 1900MHz coverage. You can use it in those areas. But you'd be much better off with a phone that's capable of 850Mhz also.

And there is no way to turn your 3-band phone into a 4-band phone. Thats a hardware issue, not a software upgrade

[ibrovic]

Thanks a lot buddy that is actually really handicaped , i wish the USA would be just the same as every country in the world and opperate the same way, drinking age 21 and above , they use miles instead of kilmeters, pounds instead of kilograms lol so i except even phones have to operate in a different way :/

I guess i will still be sticking to my BB phone :/ which sucks because my Nokia got a way better features Mp3 2.0 Mega pixels with flash, push and talk, internet, video, memory card, call it almost everything is there :/

I wish they would start operating like european phones :/

I noticed that my nokia phone would just operate in big cities deffinately not Wabash or North Manchester , i wish i was studying in Fort Wayne so i could use my nokia lol.

And i really wish if it is only an antenna thing that i would change and get a quad band :/

Oh well thanks for your help

[Buickman]

If you got Tmobile service your Nokia would work, that is if Tmobile operates in that area. All of their native coverage is 1900MHz, you would only be sacrificing the roaming agreements that they have in place.

[BillRadio]

Here is a map for AT&T 850 MHz vs. 1900 MHz coverage. For some people a "Tri-Band" GSM phone is acceptable if they have local 1900 MHz coverage.