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I have a Virgin Mobile Pay as you go phone, is there any chance that will work in Hungary, Italy and Germany? usa europe cellphones
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Not that phone. Virgin, in the USA, uses Sprint's network. Sprint uses the CDMA standard. Europe uses a different standard, GSM. The only US phones which can work in Europe are: GSM phones from AT&T and/or T-Mobile, the two GSM providers in the US, as long as the phone supports the same bands as the country you're going to (most phones in the last couple of years are multi-band and will). The newer "world phones" from Verizon, Sprint, and other CDMA carriers, (including the iPhones 4S and 5) which support both CDMA and GSM.