Vodafone works in ... San Marino

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Originally Posted by DRNewcomb

So just how does a small place like RSM keep a VodaIT or Wind customer from just picking up a signal from Italy? I remember some years ago when I was in Aqaba, Jordan, Powertel didn't have a roaming agreement with Jordan but I could use the signal from Partner (Orange) in Israel. In fact I could pick up signals from Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia standing in one spot.

Actually, until a few months ago, San Marino didn't have its own GSM network and the italian networks provided service and coverage for the sammarinese!

It's just that a new network is opening, I don't think (although I don't know what the San Marino government has decided by giving a license to a local GSM network) that the italian networks will stop having coverage and antennas in San Marino nor that they will stop selling their products in San Marino! In any case if they do stop selling products, a resident of San Marino can walk to Italy and buy his cellphone connection from there, but not his cellphone because the devices themselves are cheaper in tax-free San Marino!