Rogers HTC 8x in Europe

[DocJelly]

Hi all, first time poster...

I have a Rogers HTC 8x and I was going to unlock it and take it with me to Europe (Italy mostly) this summer so I was trying to do some research ahead of time as far as frequencies/bands and if it's even worth the expense.
From the Rogers website, I see that the phone supports the following bands:
GSM/EDGE Bands:850/900/1800/1900
HSPA+/HSPA Bands:850/1900/2100
LTE Bands:700/850/AWS/1900

From what I've been able to tell, TIM in Italy uses 900Mhz/1800Mhz but I think that's straight up GSM/EDGE. Wikipedia lists TIM LTE as 800/1800/2600.

So presuming that it's GSM/EDGE, my Rogers HTC8x would be able to use TIM's GSM/EDGE on 1800Mhz, but would not be able to use 3G or LTE frequencies (or speeds)?

 

[palandri]

You'll get 3G on TIM.

 

[DocJelly]

OK, thanks palandri. still trying to decide if I should bother unlocking, or just picking up one of those huawei 4g/lte hotspots with a sim when I get there and use that for all the phones/tablets in our whole family.

On the unlocking side, (from what I gather) Nokia Drive Beta will see that it's an Italian SIM card and grant license to maps in Italy for turn-by-turn, as opposed to roaming with my Rogers sim will tell me that I'm not licensed to use navigation in that region. Alternatively, I may borrow (or buy) an unlocked Nokia WP8 and then have Drive+ Beta which has all 160 countries maps/nav available.