On 9/14/12 7:21 AM, "Bill Rising" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sep 13, 2012, at 18:08 , Rick Burnett wrote: > >> The wife and I are going to be upgrading to the iPhone 5 tomorrow, but we are >> also going to be switching from AT&T to Verizon for a variety of reasons: >> >> - We moved recently, and AT&T doesn't offer LTE where we are now, while VZ >> does. >> - AT&T coverage isn't all that great in our new city >> - It'll actually be cheaper to pay AT&Ts early termination fee and get new >> phones from Verizon than upgrade on AT&T >> - Our monthly bill will be cheaper thanks to the larger employer discount I >> get with VZ >> - I travel overseas enough that the appeal of the CDMA iPhone 5 working on >> more LTE bands gives it an edge over the AT&T GSM model > > This last reason seems odd to me. The GSM communications standard is what is > used in most of the world, with CDMA much less common (although it was, > curiously enough, made the standard in Iraq after the US invasion). Perhaps > I'm missing something or my knowledge is out-of-date. > > I'm only commenting, because one of the reasons that I'm on ATT (and will be > for a while) is because GSM. Of course, I never use my phone to make calls > overseas, because the rates for calls when outside the US is, quite simply, > highway robbery. > > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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