Last year, Verizon promised the Samsung Galaxy S3 could be used worldwide by customers. It took six months for the company to enable this, and it only works for voice calls. When the Galaxy S3 came to Verizon last June, those who wanted to use it globally were promised that feature would come after launch. It did, in January, six months later. But customers remain frustrated that their supposedly global-ready phones can't do data outside the U.S. The issue is that despite the upgrade in January allowing Verizon Galaxy S3s to accept SIM cards from non-U.S. carriers, there's no way to establish a data connection on those phones through non-U.S. carriers. In technical talk, you can't create the needed APN (Access Point Name). As one reader e-mailed me:
Over at Verizon's support forums, there's a longstanding thread (recently closed) covering this latest issue for those who've long been awaiting global roaming for the S3. Technically, being able to make voice calls outside the U.S. would be global roaming. And it's nice that the phone can use a local SIM card to do this, which saves money versus using a Verizon international plan. But it seems unreasonable to think those who have Samsung's flagship smartphone expected that when global roaming was promised by Verizon, it meant voice-only -- that it meant making their smartphone dumb. I reached out to Verizon about this last month and again last week. So far, still no word back on when and if it will ever be corrected. Stay tuned. via Technology - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGjJiNHCU5tApC_iBM0GLtgQ1Q8hA&url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-33620_3-57569438-278/turns-out-verizons-galaxy-s3-isnt-global-ready-after-all/ | |||
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Saturday 16 February 2013
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