Belgian/Dutch border

[Ties Brants]

I understand. But if you use a Belgium sim card that roams on the Dutch networks you should be able to find out if you have coverage on a Dutch network. And also how the signal quality is.

Or take a Vodafone NL card. With vodafone Buurlanden you can receive calls in Belgium and Germany for free (if I remember correctly it cost 4,95 per month) It is not really easy to find on the Vodafone site. But is there somewhere.

[Hank C Burnette]

Originally Posted by Ties Brants

I understand. But if you use a Belgium sim card that roams on the Dutch networks you should be able to find out if you have coverage on a Dutch network. And also how the signal quality is.

I agree.

With such a small distance form the border, i guess at least one of the operators will have a good signal.

I travel a lot, and sometimes traveling on the motorways it took up to 10 km from the border before my phone "decides" to leave one network for another.

Anyway, you should try, because there is not a fixed rule.

Think even that - as far i had read in the news - in Ventimiglia, Italy near the French border people was angry because phones pick up often the more strong signal of French networks resultin in unnecessary international roaming.

[Effendi]

Originally Posted by Hank C Burnette

Think even that - as far i had read in the news - in Ventimiglia, Italy near the French border people was angry because phones pick up often the more strong signal of French networks resultin in unnecessary international roaming.

there are mountains there, I think it's not a big issue. By the way I can use my Wind simcard in Menton with Italian signal...
It's more a problem in Trieste, with Slovenian and even Croatian operators. And I think between Belgium and the Netherlands it's even worse (or better for ygeffens) since there are no mountains at all, just flat land, so the signal can go further...

[ygeffens]

Hi all,

Thanks for the hints.
Only one operator (NL KPN) shows up in my networkselection.
Outside my house it's possible to get one bar (out of five, on my iPhone); inside the house I can forget it.

So far for 30 km or plus for 900mhz

I think I'll stick to my NL-voip number and forward it.

Yves

[adam917]

Originally Posted by ygeffens

Hi all,

Thanks for the hints.
Only one operator (NL KPN) shows up in my networkselection.
Outside my house it's possible to get one bar (out of five, on my iPhone); inside the house I can forget it.

So far for 30 km or plus for 900mhz

I think I'll stick to my NL-voip number and forward it.

Yves

Isn't the maximum distance a GSM signal can travel about 35.4 km? I bet that is only hypothetically though...