how come our cellphones are different channels in any countries?

@bmodina (241)
Philippines
March 29, 2007 9:21am CST
my friend from the us send me a free cellphone that he used it before the problem is i dont have a signal could this be a different channel from the us?
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@sk66rc (4250)
• United States
19 May 08
I'm not sure about any other bands, but I know that the GSM frequencies are different here in U.S. then europe & asian countries... Here, they use 850/1900 Mhz... In Europe & Asian countries, they use 900/1800 Mhz frequencies...