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Aug 14, 2011 | 9:45 pm

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wco81

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Originally Posted by willzzz88

wco81, I just did a spec analysis, the Huawei E585 you mentioned will ONLY work on 3G HSPA+ in Europe/Asia/Middle East OUTSIDE of the Americas because it ONLY has the 2100MHz band used in those continents.

It only has the world-mode (all 4 bands) for 2G which is kind of useless in this day and age unless it's voice/SMS/MMS.

Just buy the Amazon thing pre-unlocked, you can use it in the States too! (or anywhere in the Americas for that matter!).

There are no prepaid data services in the US anyways.

So no advantage in having an unlocked Mifi in the US. If you sign up for Mifi with one of the carriers, you end up with a contract and a Mifi. Now that they're rolling out LTE networks, you probably don't want to invest too much in HSPA devices anyways.

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