Talk:Japan/@comment-24682153-20170311155001

One user from Poland did this following edit.

''Its 3G network is called FOMA and on 800 MHz in the countryside, 2100 MHz in the cities and a few 1700 MHz stations. The 800 and 1700 (not AWS like in the US, but EAWS) MHz are used only in Japan, so are most likely not covered on your phone. You can expect to get 3G only in cities on 2100 MHz with a device bought outside of Japan.''

He argued that "it's not true that 800 Mhz LTE is used only in Japan. We use 800 Mhz in many European Union states."

You are right and fatally wrong. This paragraph is about 3G (dubbed as FOMA by NTT), not 4G or LTE. NTT in Japan is the only operator in the world, that uses 800 MHz for '''3G. '''You can see this very well if you scroll down this Wikipedia article to "deployments by regions".

The problem is, that a mobile device that supports 800 MHz for 4G/LTE, doesn't support the same frequency on 2G or 3G automatically. In fact, very few phones sold outside of Japan carry the 3G 800 MHz band.

So I needed to revert your edit and add this explanation.