 Hi there, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal. I am a marketing consultant Based in Jerusalem work with a lot of tech companies Big fan of technology myself in general. So I thought I'd put together a video here Just kind of offering some tips and tricks if you will for people who are looking to live in Israel, whether that is full-time Aliyah under the law of return or you are looking at spending a summer in Israel and One of your questions is probably going to be well in terms of phone connectivity. So What's the deal? Can I bring my existing phone? Should I buy one here? And or should I buy one in Israel now if you buy one in Israel? then It's probably gonna work in Israel in some respect, but it's not guaranteed to work with the network It probably will and there probably will be someone in the phone store Who will know enough to be able to look it up for you But if you want to buy a broad and that can be cheaper Then you can do this kind of research yourself now I'm not going to go into the importing wireless equipment to Israel and just remember that a phone can fall under that category I'm not going to talk about Tax issues and customs issues. Those are separate questions for people that really know those fields But I'm just going to try to provide hopefully info that will be helpful in terms of If it will work, that's really what most people want to know So what will determine if what will it work? And that's basically for most people, especially if you're looking for an Android device You're gonna be looking at the frequencies the phone has So phones have radios in them and the radio will receive certain frequencies now over the years This has become I would say better more phones are being built with more frequencies and This this is becoming less of a problem. Nevertheless, it is good practice if you're buying a phone from the internet You know just to do a quick check, especially if you're buying from somewhere like Ali Express. So I just googled an Ali the Smartphone Android just to try find, you know the kind of first thing That would appear here Something like completely random and Ali Express as usual did not disappoint So I just went through and just grabbed it a random phone that was not, you know Super super cheap, but you know something that maybe people would look at so Let's take the black view BL 5000 dual 5g smartphone Ah nice So this is actually a better one to choose because of the fact that it has 5g now 5g has started rolling out in Israel And it's a lot quicker obviously so the same but it doesn't really matter if you have 4g 5g You're going to be going through the same process now what you want to do on any phone is Look up the specs so on Ali Express itself They'll typically have these because people are checking so you can see network So look for network look for 3g look for 4g look for 5g and you can see This section I'm going to put myself down a little bit here Now you can see hopefully now network 4g frequencies b1 b2 b3 and All these different frequencies you can see the 3d free three three g frequencies for wcd ma and you can see even the 2g frequencies if I Don't know if anyone actually really uses that anymore And you can see the 5g frequencies up there as well So now what you want to see is the next part of the puzzle is what frequencies does my Phone company transmit over on the plan. I'm thinking of taking out. Okay, so go on to it You can do it this way. There is there are these frequency look-up websites where you can go like What was this thing called black view BL 5000? Black view BL 5000 Has frequency check comm ever heard of the black view BL 5000 With the more obscure phones you might have less success Versus searching for something like the red me red me note 7 You might have more success Here we go just take one now you need to be really careful when you're doing all this stuff to make sure you're looking at the Exact model you're looking at buying or you have bought That's so yeah, just be just be careful So you have these websites that will list what frequencies are supported But you know because it's Israel and Israel is a small country and everything is kind of specific here I would trust more going to like Israeli sources So I have pulled up here Wikipedia article saying to show that cello larit be so rare and They will give you Frequencies now Tadraya cellular means the cellular networks and you can see who's using what now in Israel as in the world you have two distinct types of phone company you have The Israeli market went through a kind of competition Liberating process a number of years ago that really reduced prices was good for consumers So you have now MNOs This is way too small to be able to show up in the video which are mobile network operators and you have MVNOs which are mobile virtual Network operators now what this means is that you have A few companies bigger companies who operate their own infrastructure And then you have these kind of smaller companies typically that lease bandwidth from the MNOs and Resell it to customers now the reason I'm mentioning this is because well you might know what You might know what Golan uses if you know that a company is a MVNO of a V N O So let's say Golan. I think it's uses cellcom. So Golan is MVNO of cellcom So you can be reasonably sure but still worth checking therefore Golan probably uses the same bands as Cellcom and so that's just something to know right You can save yourself a bit of digging typically But in any event there is this lookup table here that you can check and you can see on Wikipedia Who's using what so we can see here cellcom Golan and we for G by the way, I recommend we for G Good company and you can see door Stein, which is G2 door Salos is 3g Dora Arba is 4g LTE and door Hamish is the newer one 5g and you can see what bands each company uses and you can see why this matters because different companies and different MVNOs are operating over deep different frequency bands So let's say we wanted to use our black view BL 5000 with Golan telecom. So I'm just gonna change this the relevant info here would be the network 4g so you can see B3 is one of its supported frequencies and you can see that Cellcom Golan and we for G all use B3 which is 1800 megahertz but Partner hot mobile 0 and 12 0 and 9 next mobile and all these companies do not so It probably would still work because they they use B1 and B5 B1 B5 and B8 So we have here B1 B5 and B8 so this Particular Android would probably work for 4g for every phone provider in the country But that's nevertheless how you sort of check it out If we wanted to look at the 5g bands or up here We for G Golan and cellcom all use and 78 which I think is 3,800 megahertz and And 78 is one of the 5g bands that the 5g Antenna on this phone can pick up so should be good on that front, too Now this is obviously you're lying here on you know secondhand info from Wikipedia Which is after all maintained by amateurs. So if you really want to do this Sort of in a more let's say scientific What you might want to do is just write to the companies in Hebrew probably and ask them to just verify that the data that you're seeing on Their website or a third-party website regarding the frequency bands they use is accurate But it shouldn't be much more complicated than that other things that could go wrong look for an unlocked phone So that you can just get a SIM card and pop it in I don't know if they do these deals in Israel that you get a phone and you pay it off Through a bill pay plan. I've always just had a connectivity plan. Therefore. I've always brought my own unlocked phones to the network Final thing to say is check out what SIM card that the network provides. I've just broken a 4g router By being lazy and not checking firstly exactly what SIM card it needed putting in the wrong kind And you don't want to do that because stuff can get stuck in Devices and that is never fun to waste to see 50 or 100 dollars go down the drain because You try to put in the wrong SIM card. So that's basically it number one check what frequencies a phone Supports number two check if it's unlocked or locked And number three check what frequencies that your phone provider uses so to use my lab at prop setup here You know that the transmissions from the phone company can be received by the phone Unlocked right size of SIM card and you should be pretty much good to go and then you just need to find a Find a phone plan that suits yourself Thank you guys for watching. Hope this short video was informative and perhaps even useful for somebody looking to move to Israel This is my opinion and knowledge and of course double-check and verify everything and don't rely on this if for some reason this all goes horribly wrong and you find your phone doesn't work but Should provide a good starting point for the research process. Thank you guys for watching