Further explanations of my subject:

I am the BB admin of a company that has BES and 13 BB users in United States, I was asked by friends if this toy will work in other countries, where

under the following condition:

- The Blackberry device is unlocked and will accept SIM card from any carrier.

- The SIM card inserted into the Blackbery is capable to do GPRS/EDGE data

- The (personal) email provider provides POP3 / IMAP


So far I know it will be lower case gprs showed up on the device, however I am not sure whether or not setting up personal email accounts under POP3 / IMAP protocol will work?

Sorry - the SIM card MUST have a BlackBerry Data Plan on it. A GPRS data plan doesn't really help. The BB must connect to the RIM infrastructure - even for POP3 e-mail and Internet.

Lower case gprs indicates it sees a GPRS network, but can't sign on (or get an IP address). Which can only be done if you have a BlackBerry Data Plan on the SIM card.

When you said "The BB must connect to the RIM infrastructure - even for POP3 e-mail and Internet.", does that mean even Internet browsing will not work for him, in a country where there's no carrier supporting BB ?

I was thinking the bottom line is that he can use the BB device to sign on to web mail?

Nope... There are carriers around the world that support the BB even if they do not sell it.

BUT - and there are no exceptions to this - if you have a BlackBerry, and try and use a SIM card that does not have a BLACKBERRY DATA PLAN - it will not work. No Internet. No Web Mail. Nothing.

For example - before any Indonesian carriers sold BBs, their Infrastructure handled them. So if I went there with my T-Mobile US SIM card, I could work just fine. But if I had a local SIM card, with a GPRS plan, I had no data services, but I would have voice and SMS.

Got it?

Got it, thanks a lot for clarifying this for me.

I think there is a thread that explains how to configure manually the GPRS access so i don´t believe that wont work...

If you can find a thread that explains how to use GPRS only - without a BlackBerry Data Plan - to get to the Internet or e-mail on a BB, please post it.. I think that would interest a lot of people.

Of course, I don't believe it can be done.

...and what POP3 app is there for a Blackberry anyway if you get this set up (I don't believe it can be done either)?

I just spent a month in Europe with my 8700c.. I use Cingular.
I signed up for the unlimited International data plan, and had my POP3 and Corp email without any problems. I used my browser everywhere as well without problem.. for $20 for a month this was very nice..

I intended to try one of the dual sim cards, but the BB didn't support it..
I ended up just using the Cingular voice plan calls.. spent about $200 for phone usage for the month..

Sam

I really don't see how your situation is relevant.
You have a Blackberry Data Plan. The topic here is duscussing data usage WITHOUT a Blackberry Data Plan... which is not possible.