USA Verizon phone working in India?!

adam917 · 22-03-2010, 11:40

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Originally Posted by rfranzq

Does anyone know much about CDMA in India? My pastor just got back after being there two weeks and he used his Verizon phone to text message. He did not call with it because talk would have been $2 a minute. His was not a fancy phone. Do Verizon phones have 3 or 4 bands normally?

I wouldn't be surprised if it worked fine as some Asian countries do indeed have CDMA deployed in addition to GSM/UMTS. From what I understand, CDMA is deployed on 850 & 1900 MHz primarily, with some places (usually former NMT-using countries) using CDMA on 450 MHz for mobile broadband in rural areas.

Stu · 24-03-2010, 13:48

Verizon phones work by default in India. I have a friend with a built in EVDO datacard from Verizon who went to India and made the mistake of thinking he was on WiFi when he was roaming on Indian EVDO. He tried to fight the charge on the theory that he never activated international roaming. Verizon cut the bill somewhat, but he still had a US$3,000 roaming bill to pay off.

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Stu (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Guru Posts: 1,091 Join Date: 11 Feb 2004 Location: Detroit (formerly Dubai) Country:	24-03-2010, 13:48 Verizon phones work by default in India. I have a friend with a built in EVDO datacard from Verizon who went to India and made the mistake of thinking he was on WiFi when he was roaming on Indian EVDO. He tried to fight the charge on the theory that he never activated international roaming. Verizon cut the bill somewhat, but he still had a US$3,000 roaming bill to pay off.