Hi, This is a great forum actually for T-mobile user. Now I live in Champaign-Urbana Illinois, and I plan to purchase a new tri-band PDA phone (900/1800/1900). However I am not sure it works or not since I have already checked the coverage map and still confused. Anyone could help me to solve this problem? Thanks a lot.
Your new PDA will work, but not everywhere on the TM coverage map. T-Mobile's native service is all 1900, but some of their roaming is 850. When you look at the coverage map here: http://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/ The areas around Urbana that are labeled "850 MHz roaming coverage" your PDA won't work. Your PDA will work in areas labeled "T-Mobile roaming coverage"
Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry7100/4.1.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/100) What Matt said is pretty much on target. You could probably play it safe and get a quad-band phone and not have to worry about it. That way you will be able to have full coverage including roaming coverage. Pritesh
yes you see the 900 and 1800 bands are bands that are used overseas......pretty much every national cellular carrier here in America uses 1900 and some that have been around long enough like Verizon and Cingular have 800 and 850 licenses.......T-Mobile will roam off of other companies that are GSM 1900 and GSM 850......since they dont have 850 licenses themself
