E65 won't remember manual operator selection (roam...

Hi,
while roaming, I can't get my e65 to remember manual operator selection, the setting will only last for one call, and then go back to automatic.
My operator(3 Austria)'s service hotline claims that this is an issue in ALL Nokia handsets and can't be solved. I find this hard to believe, as that behaviour oft the phone is clearly a bug. If anything, I could imagine 3 gives out all the Nokia handsets (or not just the Nokia phones, but all of them) with this bug installed to make more money out of roaming fees.
Any similar experiences?
Any ideas if and how this could be fixed?
thanks, Ben
Solved!
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Hi,
I found something like a workaround for this problem.
here goes:
If you can't disable automatic operator selection, switch the network mode from dual (jumping between umts and gsm) to umts only. that way, in countries that have 3, you will almost always get 3 automatically selected, maybe because it doesn't have a gsm-signal but just umts.
I don't know though about other operators in other countries, probably this method is always going to get you the operator with the strongest umts signal.
cheers, Ben

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