[shockgenfinder]

Got it yesterday and everything is working fine.. I have LTE coverage also. Could not wait an entire month so I puled the trigger.. I ordered it from Selfridge's.

Great Phone WOW!

[citystars41]

what did you end up paying?

[Chuck Finley69]

Got it yesterday and everything is working fine.. I have LTE coverage also. Could not wait an entire month so I puled the trigger.. I ordered it from Selfridge's.

Great Phone WOW!

What metro area? I had Z30 that would get LTE on AT&T in other parts of country, but never in Tampa Metro.

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[DroidBerryGuy]

You're probably going to encounter areas where you won't have LTE where you should, at some point.

[shockgenfinder]

What metro area? I had Z30 that would get LTE on AT&T in other parts of country, but never in Tampa Metro.

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Los Angeles.

Everything working fine like I said. If there is a issue I will get the USA version but I'm not having anynow.

[shockgenfinder]

Why do you say I would have issues in other LTE area's?

[DroidBerryGuy]

Different areas use different LTE bands. Sometimes phones sold overseas will work fine in some LTE areas, but most of the time they are missing bands specific to certain areas.

[DroidBerryGuy]

US Wireless Carrier Bands: Cheat Sheet

Check to see if the phone you purchased can utilize LTE Bands 2, 4, 12, 17 and LTE Frequencies 1900, 1700 abcde, 700 bc. If you do, you will be fine.

[Chuck Finley69]

Los Angeles.

Everything working fine like I said. If there is a issue I will get the USA version but I'm not having anynow.

LA was area I could get LTE if remembering correctly.

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[mrfreeze]

Interesting. Going to follow this thread, but I may as well wait now.

[Pinot2015]

Got it yesterday and everything is working fine.. I have LTE coverage also. Could not wait an entire month so I puled the trigger.. I ordered it from Selfridge's.

Great Phone WOW!

You will be totally fine. Any LTE band not the same (UK vs NA) is for future spectrum to penetrate buildings but that is at least 18 months out. It will still work the same. Now and after. Saying that, in certain rural areas you may only get 3G but who cares as you can still use phone! Online gaming and sending big files would just be slower in 3G.

Network bands

North America and Latin America

FD-LTE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 12, 17, 19, 20, 28, 29, 30

TDD LTE – 38, 39, 40, 41

(2100/1900/1800/1700/850/2600/700/700/800/700/2300 MHz)

HSPA+ 1, 2, 4, 5, 8 (2100/1900/1700/850/900 MHz) Quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)

Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific

FD-LTE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 13, 17 20, 28A

(2100/1900/1800/2600/900/800/700 MHz)

TD-LTE 38, 40, B28 (2600/2300/2500 MHz)

HSPA+ 1, 2, 5/6, 8 (2100/1900/850/900 MHz)

Quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)

[slagman5]

You will be totally fine. Any LTE band not the same (UK vs NA) is for future spectrum to penetrate buildings but that is at least 18 months out. It will still work the same. Now and after. Saying that, in certain rural areas you may only get 3G but who cares as you can still use phone! Online gaming and sending big files would just be slower in 3G.

Network bands

North America and Latin America

FD-LTE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 12, 17, 19, 20, 28, 29, 30

TDD LTE – 38, 39, 40, 41

(2100/1900/1800/1700/850/2600/700/700/800/700/2300 MHz)

HSPA+ 1, 2, 4, 5, 8 (2100/1900/1700/850/900 MHz) Quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)

Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific

FD-LTE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 13, 17 20, 28A

(2100/1900/1800/2600/900/800/700 MHz)

TD-LTE 38, 40, B28 (2600/2300/2500 MHz)

HSPA+ 1, 2, 5/6, 8 (2100/1900/850/900 MHz)

Quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)

Band 30 is one used by AT&T that the European version doesn't have. So if he goes into an area that uses that band, he'll lose LTE while someone else with the NA version would have LTE. I personally would just wait. He's good since in his area it seems he doesn't have that problem. So for him, he should just keep that phone.

[Jose Vazquez5]

I used to have a verizon Q10 that I used on AT&T and I would get LTE at home but not at work because it was missing some bands, not a big deal though as I had wifi at work. Just check if you get LTE in all the places you go frequently and you should be fine, worst case is it drops to 3G.

[kjung7]

How much did you end up paying with the currency exchange? And where there any tariffs/taxes applied during checkout?

[Lobwedgephil]

I thought about doing this but was worried about missing bands as I travel to rural areas for work. Glad it seems to be working fine for you.

[Pinot2015]

Try www.cellmapper.net

Easy way to find out where all the bands are for your carrier

[nbaliga]

My hats off to OP. A true BlackBerry fan. I have moved on from PKB to another device but I do hope for all the fans and shareholders like myself hat this phone succeeds despite the major blunders so far on the release.

[keyboardweeb]

You will be totally fine. Any LTE band not the same (UK vs NA) is for future spectrum to penetrate buildings but that is at least 18 months out. It will still work the same. Now and after. Saying that, in certain rural areas you may only get 3G but who cares as you can still use phone! Online gaming and sending big files would just be slower in 3G.

AT&T users may be so lucky but T-Mobile is actively using Band 12 in many areas and the UK variant lacks this band. My Classic suffers for lack of Band 12.

[S1lv1o]

Cool! A real fan.

[Pinot2015]

I noticed that Rogers in Canada uses Band 12 in rural areas a lot so I think I may wait

[RK_BB]

Got it yesterday and everything is working fine.. I have LTE coverage also. Could not wait an entire month so I puled the trigger.. I ordered it from Selfridge's.

Great Phone WOW!

Just sent you a PM

[EvEr34]

I noticed that Rogers in Canada uses Band 12 in rural areas a lot so I think I may wait

Rogers uses band 17 for 700mhz and not band 12.

[rhp525i]

Got it yesterday and everything is working fine.. I have LTE coverage also. Could not wait an entire month so I puled the trigger.. I ordered it from Selfridge's.

Great Phone WOW!

Did you have any issue using a UK-US charging adapter? My passport didn't charge after a while.

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[anon(9742832)]

Try www.cellmapper.net

Easy way to find out where all the bands are for your carrier

Correct, AT&T did not get the phone specs, so they could not approve there specific bands. In major US cities the phone will be fine and hand off with no issues. But when you travel to the country side the phone could be in trouble. Many areas are single service with system sharing. Hence complete coverage.

[Pinot2015]

Correct, AT&T did not get the phone specs, so they could not approve there specific bands. In major US cities the phone will be fine and hand off with no issues. But when you travel to the country side the phone could be in trouble. Many areas are single service with system sharing. Hence complete coverage.

Yes for this reason I will wait. Unfortunately . KEYone is for wife so I don't think she would be too happy if I got her one that didn't work in the mountains skiing just to have it 2-3 weeks early.