Live Traffic or RDS

G4GVB · Regular Visitor Joined: Jan 04, 2006 Posts: 233

I did find this on TT web site.

The coverage is for GO LIVE 1000 series and Via LIVE series devices only.
For other GO LIVE series and XL LIVE devices, the coverage is limited to the following 8 countries: the Netherlands, the United-Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Portugal and Italy.

So it seems that only the 1000 series and the VIA's get HD in all countries, while the GO820 etc only work in 8.
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dhn · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 9:42 pm Post subject:

And vice versa for a Canadian SIM card not working in the States. Since it is said about 85% of Canadians live within 100 km of the US border, it reasons that the incompatibility will affect Canucks more than Yanks.
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2216 · Regular Visitor Joined: Dec 10, 2005 Posts: 245

Andy_P · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 10:07 pm Post subject:

Excuse me? I DIDN'T "counter your post" and I did NOT use misinformation.
I clearly said I had no personal experience of "roaming" with TT SIM cards, but that any partial information should be treated with care, simply because I knew from other forum posts that SOMETIMES TT LIVE Services do not work across national borders (as has been confirmed by dhn's posts just above yours).
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DennisN · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 10:07 pm Post subject:

Misinformation is a bit confrontational, don't you think? Andy is trying to offer a note of caution similar to my own. I gave a link to my source and I was talking about Spain.

This link seems to give definitive details and actually does include Portugal, but Andy was right to advise caution.
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Two of them are obesiting!!

2216 · Regular Visitor Joined: Dec 10, 2005 Posts: 245

Iam telling everyone here that my sat nav traffic works in Porugal and we have a comment by someone who by his own words hasn't any experience of roaming. Why did he say this :- " A TomTom with a Portuguese SIM card may well get LIVE Services and HD Traffic, the question is whether a TomTom with a UK SIM card would get them while in Portugal.

I would say maybe NOT..". I have a UK sim in my TT and it works.

Others can believe me or him it's up to them.

G4GVB · Regular Visitor Joined: Jan 04, 2006 Posts: 233

I repeat what I posted earlier, This comes from Tomtom:

For the XL LIVE devices, the coverage is limited to the following 8 countries: the Netherlands, the United-Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Portugal and Italy.
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DennisN · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 11:23 pm Post subject:

AliOnHols · Pocket GPS Verifier Joined: Oct 15, 2008 Posts: 1936

mikealder · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 9:00 am Post subject:

Whilst there were a number of different RDS-TMC receivers released there were only two markets catered for European or North America. As said before a North American unit won't work in Europe, the European unit won't work in North America. A European unit will work in any European country that transmits RDS-TMC data.

Connecting the unit to the cars FM aerial does make a big difference in time taken before the unit locks to the signal and receives data, this can be done using a small ceramic disk capacitor to block any DC voltage that might be present on the car aerial cable - Mike

MrT · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 9:25 am Post subject:

I wonder if I get the wider coverage on my 940 as I have one of the old SIM cards that takes several minutes to connect on V9 and gave SIM errors on some of the firmware updates?
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G4GVB · Regular Visitor Joined: Jan 04, 2006 Posts: 233

Thanks for you reply Mikealder. I was in Florida a few weeks ago and to cut a long story short I had to buy a GPS there. I ended up buying an XL350MT so it had the RDS traffic lead. It worked well while there. On returning to the UK I connected it up to my 750 and it works fine on that, locking on to stations and producing traffic information.

Based on that I'm not sure first statement is true, unless I have misunderstood.
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XL 350 MT v9.151 - v8.75366 US Map

AliOnHols · Pocket GPS Verifier Joined: Oct 15, 2008 Posts: 1936

G4GVB · Regular Visitor Joined: Jan 04, 2006 Posts: 233

It was much easier when there was just the GO 300, 500, & 700
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dhn · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 10:32 am Post subject:

This rds traffic/car charger combo and a unit with the latest (9.40) will work anywhere there is fm traffic coverage in both Europe and North America.

A couple of years ago, I used mine and a 540 on a trip to Italy. Meanwhile, back here in Canada, coverage is limited to **only** four cities in the entire country....... Confused

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