WCDMA v. HDSPA v. UMTS

[DRNewcomb]

Originally Posted by inquisitor

Whereas Europe, Oceania and Asia mostly operate UMTS at 900 and 2100 MHz, American UMTS-networks work at 850, 1700 and 1900 MHz. Afaik there is still no device available supporting all these five UMTS-bands, so it's impossible to have a worldwide compatible UMTS-device, whereas that's possible for GSM by buying a quadband-phone.

Some people like to complain that there are no phones to permit access to all possible WCDMA bands. My response is "¿Por Qúe?" What would one do with such a phone? Do you have a roaming plan or pockets deep enough to allow gigabytes of data usage while roaming? When I got the Nokia e61 I decided I could rest in my search for my roaming phone. I think back to the days when I traveled with two Nokias: a 2110 and a 2190, one battery, one charger and one belt case. I thought that was pretty efficient.