NickP 1K

I have now had a dualband (900/1800) blackberry in Europe for 3 months. No issues other than software bugs like crazy - which RIM has finally started to fix.

Coverage is as follows in most countries for a Europe issues blackberry (activated by o2/old BT Cellnet)

Country:Network
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UK: O2
Germany: O2 (VIAG) and T-Mobile
Holland: O2 (Telefort)
Ireland: O2 (Digifone)
Spain: Telefonica
Czech Republic: T-Mobile (Paegas)

Other countries below are online but under trial service: Some regions may not work

Finland: Sonera
Norway: Telenore
Hong Kong: Hutchinson/Orange
Switzerland: Sunrise
Italy: TIM

Pending
Belgium: Belgacom
Austria: T-Mobile
France: SFR
Sweden: Telia
Portugal: Optimus
Denmark: Sonofon
USA: ATT (GSM)

The USA agreement covers pending devices (TriBand)

Performance is about the same as on the US data networks. The devices we have use GPRS. As long as in our case O2 has a GPRS roaming agreement with the roaming network AND the blackberry.net APN is accessable (as above) then roaming should work fine.

On the server side, our IT team runs the same server software (as used on US blackberrys) to redirect messages to us.

Anyone else using a Europe blackberry.

ScottC

I was using it for some time but was never too happy, I now use a pocketpc and a sync package we built ourselves that runs using SyncML, this way I can sync my pocketpc and my cellphone (T68i using syncml client).