Re: [Debconf-discuss] Borrowing a Mobile Phone for DebCamp/Conf
On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 03:26:13PM +0200, Philip Hands wrote:
> Denver Gingerich <denver@ossguy.com> writes:
>
> > On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 11:24:35PM +0200, Philip Hands wrote:
> >> It seems that none of the 3 mobiles that I have with me are willing to
> >> play in Canada for one reason or another, so I could do with borrowing
> >> one.
> >
> > I'm curious if any of these 3 mobile phones have quad-band GSM
> > support. If so, then those would work fine in Canada. It's pretty
> > rare for a phone built in the past 5 years or so to not have quad-band
> > GSM, though it's possible some parts of the world still don't have a
> > lot of them.
>
> In the absence of any information, I might have made the same
> assumption, but given that I said that they don't work, it seems a bit
> odd to do so.
My apologies. I had wrongly assumed that none of the phones being "willing to play in Canada" meant that none of them supported Canadian frequencies. And the recent discontinuation of 2G by some North American carriers may lead people to believe that 2G might not be available in Canada (indeed it very soon might not be), at which point the 3G and LTE band differences with other parts of the world become more problematic (making a lack of frequency compatibility more likely than for 2G).
I may have a spare phone that you could borrow (with the usual mini-SIM slot), though I won't know for sure until later this week once I've gone through some boxes. In any case, I will inform you if I find it. Again, my apologies for making assumptions about what you were saying.
Denver
https://jmp.chat/
https://ossguy.com/
Reply to: