In article <w074j.1376$CS4.840@fe111.usenetserver.com>, Todd Allcock
<elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote:

> No, Verizon isn't "switching to GSM." They are planning to use the same 4G
> system as Vodaphone, the European GSM carrier that owns 45% of Verizon
> Wireless. The goa I assume, will be to allow data/voice interoperability
> between future US CDMA 4G phones and European GSM 4G phones, similar to how
> current Japanese wireless companies use WCDMA 3G data at 2100MHz on their
> non-GSM system, allowing GSM interoperability with GSM 3G phones (at least
> on that one band.)

They are going to LTE for 4G which is the GSM upgrade to 4G, not the US
CDMA upgrade to 4G. You might not want to call it switching to GSM,
maybe evolving to the future GSM would be the way to put it, but in the
end Verizon will be on GSM.

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Charles