(Almost) I-mode Service Coming in April

Posted by timothy on Monday March 25, 2002 @05:46AM from the preview-restaurant-menu-choices dept.

DJSK8 Mast0r Ralph McDaniels writes: "Looks like NTT DoCoMo Inc's investment in AT&T last year is coming to fruition as this article from allnetdevices.com lays claim to AT&T rolling out i-mode based services repackaged for the U.S. market as m-mode service with Motorola, Sony/Ericcson, Nokia and Siemens offering the requisite phones to take advantage of it. Not quite 3G, but seems on par with the 2.5G services Verizon recently rolled out, though both are a far cry from the 100Mbit/20Mbit 4G services DoCoMo is already working on."

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Re:New phones. by Cato · 2002-03-25 06:20 · Score: 5, Informative

Just be sure to get a tri-band GSM phone - the US uses GSM at 1900 MHz, while the rest of the world uses a mix of 900 and 1800 MHz.

Even if you get a single-band phone, you should be able to take your GSM phone's SIM card and put it in phones that you rent overseas (called SIM roaming) - but it's much more convenient to just use your phone everywhere, with all the phone numbers and other setup. I've used my GSM phone all round Europe and it worked fine in India (Mumbai) when I was there.