Different carrier, despite manual network selection

Why does the manual network selection not fix the chosen network carrier.
I use the option manual network selection, select my preferred network carrier, but once I loose the connection to the chosen carrier (train ride), my iPhone 3GS starts a new search and switches to a different available carrier, despite manual network selection activated. As far as I was concerned, manual network selection should prevent the iphone 3GS to search for a different carrier, except the one chosen.
When I go back into the network selction menu, manual network selection is still activated and a checkmark is set on the preferred chosen network. Despite these facts, the iPhone 3GS is logged in to another carrier's network, indicated in the top left corner.
This is a big problem, when I'm using my iPhone in another country. Roaming Costs are high!
A quick search in the www indicateds, that I'm not the only one with this problem. As it can cause high additional costs, this problem should be fixed as soon as possible.

honestly i don't think its a apple iphone direct issue. here's what i know...i have had a no service on my 3gs randomly coming up on my phone for nearly a year now. i have done everything you've stated and still the same. i recently just went to australia and used a telstra sim card and it worked flawlessly for 2 months. i believe that bell and telus have changed their signal or something that is causing this but they will deny it to the bitter end. so...why not just buy another iphone? Exactly! thats what they want you to do! It's just a ploy to get you to buy another phone. if you can get another carrier besides these 2 crooks i think you will find it works. try buying a cheap prepaid sim card to see which carrier works best in your area before selecting a plan.

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I have an unlocked iphone 5S and seem to have an issue with the manual selection mode. I was travelling outside my resident country and switched to manual network selection mode to choose my preferred roaming network in the foreign country. After spending 10 minutes scanning, the phone didn't come back with any results although there was clearly network coverage of my preferred roaming network where I was standing. I had to restart the phone and then surprisingly ios 7.1 changed the network selection mode from manual to automatically. After changing it back to manual, I was finally able to get my preferred network. However, there was another issue with this - after successfully registering onto the preferred roaming network and having made calls on this network, the phone for some odd reason switched to another network which I hadn't chosen. This happened despite the network selection kept on manual. Eventually, my roaming bills went through the roof due to this.
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Just to clarify the original query.
1. I manually select, say, three Sweden when I'm in Sweden.
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3. I do whatever mail sending etc is necessary only to find the phone has flipped over to, for example, 3G Sweden, which is not part of the Three Group.
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I have the E71 on the Three network and it allows roaming in this country (something thats usually locked off) to avoid roaming charges I went to change the phones network select option from Automatic to manual, I get the usual pop up to select the network I want to connect to but when I go back to the network options screen it shows as automatic and does indeed allow roaming. How do I actually change to manual network selection.
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