Jimrpa
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You likely would NOT have to buy a different “modem”. North America and Europe use pretty much all the same LTE bands. This is why your phone works when you go to Europe. You will have to get a data plan and, depending on the type of LTE radio Ford is using, you may have to put in a new SIM from the carrier providing your data plan. If the LTE radio uses an eSIM (like the new Apple iPhones do), you don’t have to swap SIMs.
That said, as I pointed out before, all that gets you is a data connection. I doubt any of the connected services are going to work (or work well) in Europe. They’re likely geofenced.
To make matters worse, it looks like the Europeans have decided to adopt their own, separate standard for electric car charging plugs, so once again, we’ve managed to create multiple standards when we had a chance for simplifying and creating one standard ?
That said, as I pointed out before, all that gets you is a data connection. I doubt any of the connected services are going to work (or work well) in Europe. They’re likely geofenced.
To make matters worse, it looks like the Europeans have decided to adopt their own, separate standard for electric car charging plugs, so once again, we’ve managed to create multiple standards when we had a chance for simplifying and creating one standard ?
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