Originally Posted by
ScottC
One other thing: you SHOULD be able to roam in the US, were you using a tri or quadband cellphone to get onto a US network? If the phone you were using is only Dualband (European bands) then it won't work in the US.
Not quite. It should be able to roam on T-Mobile here, since they operate exclusively on the 1900 Mhz band. Almost all European phones will have 900 and 1900 Mhz. They will not have the 850 band, but in the case of T-Mobile it will not matter.