N93 Using 3g's Cingular

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nickelbee500

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The strangest thing happened the other day that is inexplainable. Ok i have tmobile, and my friend has cingular. I was sending him a ringtone over the bluetooth connection, and my regular signal tower looking icon went away and had the letters 3g, with a connection level that was pretty high. Ok thats not the strange thing. at this time 3g was not even launched or accessible in my area code 30458, by cingular, and surely not tmobile. Can anyone explain this. After seeing this i believe that 3g will work with these phones even though the uplink and downlink are totally different frequencies. If cingulars 3g runs on the 1900 frequency, and a phone has the 1900 band but a UMTS 2100 band is the 3g frequency that the phone uses. I may sound like i am confusing yall but this auctually happened. So i have one question. Has anyone actually tried using an cingular simcard that has 3g connection enabled on an european phone. Is there anyone that can explain this?
 
yeah i know, i was just wondering how in the world that happened, because it suprised me. I posted here to see if there was anyone who could possibly explain how this happened.
 
My guess would be a glitch. I do know that most 3G phones will switch to the 3G symbol if there is NO GSM signal, but I've never heard of seeing decent signal.

This doesn't make sense 10 fold. You picked up Cingular's 1900 UMTS signal on a 2100 UMTS phone before Cingular even had coverage of any 3G at all in your area? A miracle indeed.
 
This has happened to several people with 2100 UMTS phones on T-Mobile here in my area.

T-Mobile is testing 3G in several areas as we speak, so you might have received the uplink on 2100. Too bad the downlink is 1700.
 
Well, here's a thought; once T-Mobile rolls outs their 3G service formally, would any of us with a Euro 3G phone (2100/1900) be able to upload using 3G, but download over EDGE? The OP's experience makes it sound like this could be possible. Sending large emails very quickly is better than nothing, I suppose?
 
I don't know if i'm saying this right or not, but as long as 2100 UMTS (what tmobiles going to use) works, video calling would work right?, but The only thing that would not work is the fast download speeds, because the downlink will be at 1700. is this right?
 
You could possibly send, but you coundn't receive since that requires a downlink. And this is only if T-Mobile USA enables video calling on their network.

Voice wouldn't work at all since it requires the up and downlinks to work simultanously.
 
Johnny,

It wouldn't work, because even when you are sending data, there's other data that comes in through the downlink that's used to make the upload work... there's never a time when you are solely using an uplink...

As for EDGE for the downlink, the firmware would have to be setup that way, and I doubt it is.

-olly
 
guys, it's very simple. when there's no signal available, the phone scans for any available 900/1800/1900mhz gsm network and 2100mhz UMTS. IT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S AVAILABLE!

go into your network settings and disable the 3G option to save yourself from false expectations and....increased battery depletion.
 
ah ha....tha'ts right! I would only see those after a FW update when I forgot to switch it to GSM only! Good thinking from a guy that hates nokia!! .....even though 90 percent of your past phones are N's
 
That's true but hopefully the OP can re-create the connection and be 100 percent certain that he had signal because the possibility of it finding a 3g connection with a dead frequency is like a dualband 900/1800 somehow working in the states.
 
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