[maemo-users] n900 - buy or wait?

[From: Valentin Chopov]

I believe in Canada Rogers/Fido use the same frequencies as AT&T in the US.
It's sad that Nokia didn't make a n900 version for this market ...

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+maemo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Bernard Tyers <b at runningwithbulls.com> wrote:
>>
>> ----- Original message -----
>>
>>>
>>> Well, I bought my N900 even though it does not work on AT&T's 3G network.
>>
>> Can you explain why it doesn't work qith AT&T's 3G network? To a mobile network guy that sounds very strange!
>
> AT&T and most other cellular operators in North and South America use
> 3G frequencies the N900 does not support, and many do not use GSM at
> all.
>
> Of the 5 major cellular operators in the USA (AT&T Mobility, Verizon,
> Sprint, T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular) the N900 only works fully with 3G on
> T-Mobile, only 2G with AT&T Mobility, and does not work at all with
> Verizon, Sprint or U.S. Cellular as they do not use GSM.
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