Iphone Carrier Search Buggy?  Takes 20 minutes to identify and connect?

I work, live, and travel in Europe. My iphone is from T-Mobile netherlands - and I have another that is a US iphone (travel a lot). The most annoying thing about the phone is landing in a new country (travel 4-5 countries a week) and have to wait 20 minutes or longer in some instances for the Iphone to identify and connect to a new carrier. Also - if mobile (meaning in a taxi) it doesn't work at all - I have found I must be stationary for 20 minutes in order for the phone to connect. This is very annoying as first thing you want to do when you land is call colleagues to alert them to your arrival - plan a meeting spot - and call a client to the let them know you are on the way - none of which you can do till 1/2 hour after arrival. Is this a known bug? Are there known ways to fix this?

And I thought I was the only one... so it is an iPhone issue. In my case, sometimes even after returning to "home" network, I cannot get connection. The second last time this happened, I did not manage to get the signal till the morning so Vodafone Ireland happily replaced the SIM which appeared to fix the problem. I've just returned from the UK and it took the phone over 1 hour to find the network. Crazy!
I've tried all the usual tricks.. Restarting phone, resetting network settings, changing network type, taking out SIM card... it appeared to respond immediately after I connected it to the USB port, HOWEVER this has nothing to do with iTunes Carrier update - my box is happily running Linux. So... may be completely unrelated.
I found few other posts of people complaining about this particular problem...
Search on "Problem connecting to a carrier whilst on international roaming"

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