frequency ????

LastIrishMonkey

what frequency does meteor sim cards use with a mobile phone is it 1900 or 1800 ? anyideas?

techie_2006

LastIrishMonkey wrote:

what frequency does meteor sim cards use with a mobile phone is it 1900 or 1800 ? anyideas?

GSM Frequency Bands
These are 900, 1800 and 1900MHz. Meteor operates on 900 and 1800mhz.

LastIrishMonkey

n1

techie_2006

np's ;-)

otron

Actually Meteor only operate on 1800MHz, they don't have a licence to use the 900MHz band.

1900MHz is not used in Europe... mostly America and possibly Asia.

techie_2006

otron wrote:

Actually Meteor only operate on 1800MHz, they don't have a licence to use the 900MHz band.

1900MHz is not used in Europe... mostly America and possibly Asia.

http://www.meteor.ie/misc/reference_glossary.html#

See the very top of the letter G.

*Edit

Actually 5th one down.

rogue-entity

I have seen a few Meteor GSM 900 masts so they must be using both frequencies.

Is it possable to get a licence to use 1900 for GSM in Ireland??
If so then it could be used for an Irish "coffee GSM" service like in the UK
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/wireless/0,39020348,39211540,00.htm

jrey1981

GSM 900Mhz signal has a much wider coverage area - and therefore is used in rural areas - than GSM 1800Mhz - which predominates in built-up towns and cities.

I think all 3 of the big networks use both frequencies

Andy-Pandy

There was a problem with some older handsets like the 5100, i cant remeber which frequecy is which, but it only worked off 1 frequency and it wouldnt work in the city centre due to the fact that meteor runs of two differant frequencys. One for more built up area's and one for the suburbs. So it defenatly uses two, but ive know idea which is which.


Edit\but if you look above this post you will find out