On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 15:43:29 -0800, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com>
wrote in <4578a722$0$82615$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>:

>"http://www.techweb.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196601406"
>
>"Both T-Mobile and Cingular had an advantage not available for Verizon
>and Sprint users: their GSM-based phones can usually be used in many
>non-U.S. countries, CR observed."
>
>That's great news, as there are certainly a lot of non-U.S. countries.
>
>Actually, you can use CDMA phones in a lot of non-U.S. countries as
>well, just not as many as with GSM phones.

Actually not very many, and more importantly not with local pre-paid
SIMs, a huge advantage of GSM over CDMA2000.

>And there are several
>countries where CDMA works but GSM doesn't, including Japan and Korea.

That's 2, not "several". GSM works in vastly more places than CDMA2000.
See GSMWorld.com

>CDMA is growing by leaps and bounds, with a lot of new deployments in
>4Q2006, and more coming next year, especially at 450MHz.

CDMA2000 is actually on the decline, with Nokia having abandoned it,
Sprint migrating to WiMAX, other countries thinking of dumping it (e.g.,
India), and even Qualcomm is hedging its bets.

Kindly take your CDMA2000 trolling someplace else.

--
Best regards, FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS:
John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ>