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Question

do verizon phones allow you to use 4g in other country?

Jan 26, 2015 3:37AM PST

Hi, ive bough several phones in ebay for friends and family from verizon network. We are using them here in Mexico with local sims and they work perfectly, but a friend told me that the only problem is that i wont be able to use the 4g because the phones are from verizon, that if i buy them unlocked from at&t they will work with 4G. There is no way for me to find out because the network that im with dosent have 4g in this reagion but eventually it will be here sometime this year. I want to be 4g capable when this happens and my question is if this is true or will verizons phones work with 4g? Thank you.

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Cnet kind of slams this one.
Jan 26, 2015 4:03AM PST
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Yes, but it truly depends on which phone you choose
Jan 26, 2015 5:01AM PST

AFAIK, Mexico is also using Band 2 or 4 for LTE, at least in some areas where it already exists/is built out. Verizon should have phones that would cover those bands, but buying via ebay is probably the worst way to suddenly find out your phone doesn't contain the frequency band it is supposed to. Model and serial number check would be in order from the actual physical device in question. There may not be much 700MHz in use in Mexico, but probably plenty of 1900 & 1700 service for LTE (data), plus UMTS for voice (roaming). Not sure about CDMA in MX though.

The following resource should help a little-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LTE_networks

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LTE in Mexico
Jan 26, 2015 11:26AM PST

It is not widely available for most of Mexico. There are are some specific requirements: The phone most support the required LTE bands, the local carrier must allow roaming customers to use the LTE to name a few.