Gsm 850 In A Gsm 900 Country

Stu · 15-01-2007, 06:03

The phone, however, is programmed to do 850mhz or 900mhz just by changing one bite in the firmware. Isn't it possible that there was a minor glitch in the firmware of the phone that caused this to happen?

The experience made no sense to me. Who knows, may be the phone company does some picocells on the 1800mhz band and some nearby bulding had one. I never heard of Etisilat on the 1800mhz frequency, but they probably could could get TRA approval to transmit there in five minutes. The UAE cannot use that frequency for other purposes neighboring countries do have networks on that frequency and it would be a nightmare if the UAE opened it up for something else.

There is a sports stadium about a mile away. That's all I can think of.

Stu

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Stu (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Guru Posts: 1,091 Join Date: 11 Feb 2004 Location: Detroit (formerly Dubai) Country:	15-01-2007, 06:03 The phone, however, is programmed to do 850mhz or 900mhz just by changing one bite in the firmware. Isn't it possible that there was a minor glitch in the firmware of the phone that caused this to happen? The experience made no sense to me. Who knows, may be the phone company does some picocells on the 1800mhz band and some nearby bulding had one. I never heard of Etisilat on the 1800mhz frequency, but they probably could could get TRA approval to transmit there in five minutes. The UAE cannot use that frequency for other purposes neighboring countries do have networks on that frequency and it would be a nightmare if the UAE opened it up for something else. There is a sports stadium about a mile away. That's all I can think of. Stu