On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Rod Trent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rtrent/archive/2008/04/01/which-u-s-cell-provider-is-best-in-china.aspx
Some tech explanation: Both Verizon and Sprint are CDMA carriers. T-Mobile, Cingular/AT&T, and pretty much every other carrier in the world uses GSM. Most of the planet uses GSM. It's only in the US that the idea of wholly incompatible cell phone networks is accepted. Everywhere else, you can buy a phone from any vendor, a SIM from any carrier, and swap them around at will. You can generally roam anywhere in the world that has coverage, too. There are CDMA towers outside North America, but they are fewer and further between, and roaming agreements have to be negotiated on a per-carrier basis. So if you're traveling internationally, GSM is the way to go. Of course, GSM coverage in the US isn't as good as CDMA, overall. Verizon's solution for us was a hybrid phone (BlackBerry 8830 World Edition) which had two radios and two service accounts. One for CDMA in the US, and one for GSM everywhere else. Crude, and still more expensive, but that, at least, did work. -- Ben ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
