What is Quad Band?

One of my wholesale vendors has a bunch of new unlocked feature phones
listed with some cool features (some I might even use) and they say quad
band, but they do not specifically say CDMA.

(I normally do not buy phones or that type equipment from that vendor.)

Bob La Londe wrote:
> One of my wholesale vendors has a bunch of new unlocked feature phones
> listed with some cool features (some I might even use) and they say quad
> band, but they do not specifically say CDMA.
>
> (I normally do not buy phones or that type equipment from that vendor.)

Quad band means it can send/receive on four different frequency bands.
I don't know if that means ALL frequency bands allocated for Cell Phone use.

If they do not say CDMA there is a good chance that they are not CDMA!
They might be GSM. They might even be AMPS phones which are totally
obsolete now.

If you post the name of the manufacturer and the model you *might* get
some meaningful answers. If these are "no name" phones, forget it!

"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> wrote in
news:wKydnfFtY9bZ5XnXnZ2dnUVZ_qSdnZ2d@giganews.com :

> Bob La Londe wrote:
>> One of my wholesale vendors has a bunch of new unlocked feature
>> phones listed with some cool features (some I might even use) and
>> they say quad band, but they do not specifically say CDMA.
>>
>> (I normally do not buy phones or that type equipment from that
>> vendor.)
>
> Quad band means it can send/receive on four different frequency bands.
> I don't know if that means ALL frequency bands allocated for Cell
> Phone use.
>
> If they do not say CDMA there is a good chance that they are not CDMA!
> They might be GSM. They might even be AMPS phones which are totally
> obsolete now.
>
> If you post the name of the manufacturer and the model you *might* get
> some meaningful answers. If these are "no name" phones, forget it!
>

Just turn the phone on, if you can, and dial 611 to see who it connects to!
If Verizon, Sprint or Cricket answer...it's CDMA. If ATT or Tmobile answer
looking for the SIM card, it's GSM. If noone answers unless you're in
rural Utah, it's AMPS ONLY.

Quad band means it will work on 2 bands in the USA 850 Mhz and 1900 Mhz and
2 bands in Europe/Japan 900 Mhz and 1800 Mhz.

Look under the battery for the GSM card slot. I bet it's GSM, which will
have a SIM card slot under the battery.


--
Larry