Will iphone 5 bought in eu work in usa?
Will iphone 5 bought in eu work in usa?
If you live in Europe, your iPhone 5 will be a GSM model, regardless of the phone company, iPhone 5 model A1429
Technical Details from Each iPhone Model's Perspective
The A1428 model (Canada and US AT&T network) is GSM. The A1428 supports UMTS/HSPA+DC-HSDPA (frequencies 850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz), GSM/EDGE (frequencies 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz), and LTE bands 4 and 17.
The A1429 model comes in two different flavours, one CDMA and one GSM:
The A1428 GSM model supports LTE in Asia (e.g. South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Japan, too) as well as LTE in Australia, Germany, and the UK on bands 1, 3, and 5.
The A1429 CDMA version supports Sprint's and Verizon's LTE networks in the US, the KDDI network in Japan on bands 1, 3, 5, 13, and 25.
Important: The CDMA version will also support GSM bands. This means the CDMA iPhone 5 will be compatible with some GSM networks. BUT… The CDMA A1429 will not support LTE on GSM networks in the US. Whew… Got that?
Reference: http://www.apple.com/...phone/LTE/ mfg p
Yes, it will work in the USA or on any GSM-based network worldwide.
It' won't work on certain American networks that use a different technology (CDMA), but for a UK or European visitor to the US that has no effect as there are GSM networks covering the country.
(The problem is for someone with an America CDMA-Only phone, as that won't work much outside the USA).
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