Re: [NTLK] too Quiet on the List(Pippin)

Jon Glass wrote:

>
> No, no. I'm in Krakow, Poland, with Plus GSM. My son's phone is also
> with Plus GSM. He spent the summer in the States, and had his Polish
> phone and SIM card in it. He had another phone for local calls, etc,
> but we could SMS back and forth, so long as he was on ATT's network,
> but when his phone picked up T-Mobile, it would fail. Since his phone
> is a European phone, it had only one US band (forget which one), and
> it wasn't easy to pick and choose which network he roamed on--though
> he would try. So, keeping in mind that this was international SMSing,
> that was our problem. I have friends in the US who are/were on
> T-Mobile, and they never got my SMSs from Poland either. It seems that
> T-Mobile doesn't like to pass on European SMSs, or at least Plus GSM
> SMSs. :-) That's why I won't want to do T-Mobile--but that's the
> _only_ reason. :-)
>

Jon,

Just out of curiosity, have you had a chance to try it using T-Mobile in
Germany? I'm wondering if they use the same network protocols as the
U.S. subsidiary.

-- 
Sincerely,
Dennis B. Swaney
"Windows is a command-line OS with a GUI shell while Mac System 10 is 
... oh, never mind."
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