Do Virgin UK sims work in the US?
Dec 6, 2005 | 1:22 pm
#17
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T-mobile's network in the USA is far, far, far less complete than Cingular's.
T-Mobile basically covers MAJOR cities and interstate routes. SOME mid-size cities are covered by roaming agreements with a handful of other carriers. , personally, get great Cingular GSM service at my house but bare get any TMO service there. And that is in a suburban part of a very major city.
Since Virgin UK operates on the T-Mobile UK system, I'd ahve thought that Virgin UK would have had a roaming deal with T-Mobile USA, like Orange UK does. Humph!
T-Mobile basically covers MAJOR cities and interstate routes. SOME mid-size cities are covered by roaming agreements with a handful of other carriers. , personally, get great Cingular GSM service at my house but bare get any TMO service there. And that is in a suburban part of a very major city.
Since Virgin UK operates on the T-Mobile UK system, I'd ahve thought that Virgin UK would have had a roaming deal with T-Mobile USA, like Orange UK does. Humph!
Dec 7, 2005 | 11:37 am
#18
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I put my Virgin sim in a quad band phone that I know picked up a T-mobile signal (ie had a Tmobile sim) and tried to manually change networks and it still would only come up Cingular. It might be that since I have Cingular coverage, they don't allow you to manually change unless their coverage isn't available.