Razr a no-go in Europe?

I've just returned from 4 months in Holland. Before I left, I purchased
an unlocked Motorola V3 quad band. Upon arriving in Holland and
inserting the sim card I had purchased, no signal. The helpful phone
shop guy tried several other cards to no avail. I ended up having to
buy a different phone. He said he had heard that these phones wouldn't
work in Europe despite being quad band GSM. Was he just blowing smoke
or do these things really not work as advertised?

Don


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chesnut <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

> I've just returned from 4 months in Holland. Before I left, I purchased
> an unlocked Motorola V3 quad band. Upon arriving in Holland and
> inserting the sim card I had purchased, no signal.
(snip)

FWIW my wife's American locked-to-AT&T RAZR V3 worked fine in England
last month.

Mark

chesnut wrote:
> I've just returned from 4 months in Holland. Before I left, I purchased
> an unlocked Motorola V3 quad band. Upon arriving in Holland and
> inserting the sim card I had purchased, no signal. The helpful phone
> shop guy tried several other cards to no avail. I ended up having to
> buy a different phone. He said he had heard that these phones wouldn't
> work in Europe despite being quad band GSM. Was he just blowing smoke
> or do these things really not work as advertised?
>
> Don
>
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> View this thread: http://www.wirelessforums.org/showthread.php?t=29554
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Sounds as though it wasn't actually unlocked...?

(E-Mail Removed) (RWEmerson) wrote in
news:(E-Mail Removed):

> Sounds as though it wasn't actually unlocked...?

If it wasn't unlocked, it would have immediately asked for a
subsidy code when turned on with the "foreign" SIM card installed.

Most (all?) multi-band GSM phones have menu settings for selecting
what bands they'll work on. Mine has "Automatic", "850/1900" and
"900/1800". Maybe his was set for "850/1900", the US standard.

But, what's this thread doing in "alt.internet.wireless"?

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