Roaming + "Tri-Band question"

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Raebell

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So, after much research and questioning - I have come up with the following questions/statements that I hope someone can verify and help me out with.

So, with crickets roaming on the nationwide plan, you have to have a "Tri-Band Phone" to be ABLE to roam? Otherwise with a NON Tri-band phone, you canNOT roam?

So then, what is "Tri-Band," really? Is it UMTS 850/1900/2100mhz or like, CDMA 800/1900 + something else?

Finally, if my flashed phone is a "3G" Phone, i.e. Palm Pre/iPhone (for the sake of argument if it was cdma/umts based)/BB Bold, then I WOULD be able to roam on the new nationwide plan?

I currently have a fully flashed blackberry tour 9630 (CDMA 800/1900 + UMTS 2100mhz) but canNOT roam at ALL even after activating roaming on the flex bucket and with PRL 4399.

I'd love some input thanks so much for all your help guys :)
 
I could be wrong but to my understanding use of a dual band CDMA phone will permit you to roam on Sprints network. "Talk/text only!"
Tri-bad/AWS & UMTS is a different story al together.
iPhones will never be able to be flashed to cricket. and ideally your CDMA Tour should be able to roam. You may want to contact a cricket dealer and have them verify that roaming is on your account and double check your PRL.
 
"Tri-band" is used by Cricket in certain parts of the country. It is mostly the newest areas that require tri-band phone. I live in Chicago and we have to use tri-band phones. If you use a non-tri-band phone in Chicago you will be roaming and will require roaming fees. Tri-band is CDMA 800/1700/1900. The 1700 band is the special "AWS" band that allowed Cricket to come into cities that were already saturated in cellular coverage.
 
but shouldnt the non triband phone roam on sprint with correct prl?? (talk/text only of course)... im no where near a triband market, just going by what corporate reps tell me.
 
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