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Apr 2, 2006 | 7:11 am

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Originally Posted by andre1970

Same question here! C'mon experts, please! I mostly travel to Europe, Japan and HKG. I use a tri-band Nokia in Europe and HKG (and it works just fine) and my Moto E815 (I hate it now) in the US with Verizon. But Japan?

Japan and South Korea simply don't use the GSM system so no tri or quad band phone will work there. You CAN obtain phones that allow you to use a GSM SIM Card with the local networks in Japan but these cost a lot in terms of call charges.

I am not aware of any phone that works absolutely everywhere.

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