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Anyone had any experience using wifi in other countries? A friend said their Thunderbolt couldn't use the wifi at their condo on the Cayman islands. I'm headed to Germany/Austria next summer and I'd like to use wifi on my phone. Do they have a different wifi standard or something?

I was able to use the wifi in a hotel in Norway no problem. Well, unless you count the wifi only being for the lobby and having to sit with my back against my hotel room door to get a signal.

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Same for Iceland, wi-fi worked just fine on my laptop, but I had to go down to the lobby to use it.

802.11/b/g/n is 802.11/b/g/n. It shouldn't matter where you are. Likely there was just some other technical problem with the WiFi at your friend's condo (or with the LAN's connection to the ISP, or with the ISP itself).

What doesn't work in many non-US locations with a US cell phone is the actual phone and/or data service. You may be able to buy a pre-paid SIM card and swap it into your phone for the duration of the trip, but it depends on your phone. With iPhones for instance, my understanding (possibly wrong) is that you have to jail-break them if you want to re-chip -- at least for any non-AT&T SIM, anyway. That shouldn't have any bearing on WiFi, though.

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Wifi in France worked fine on my itouch recently.

I didn't have much trouble finding WiFi in France and Ireland.

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Yeah, I know the actual phone portion of my phone will not work. Its a Verizon phone, CDMA/LTE. But I'm planning on using wi-fi and Skype to use it as a phone.

What Stathol said, as usual...

Actually, there are some frequencies only permitted in some countries, so its *possible* that if you're using a US device and they're running on a frequency your chipset wont see you wont get on... but I've never ever actually seen that happen. Generally the restriction is that a base station wont offer the frequencies that arent permitted in its country of sale, not that clients wont bind to them.