"SMS" <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in message
news:4578a722$0$82615$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...
> "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."

"Usually" is probably rather overstated: Unless someone specifically purchased
an unlocked phone from their U.S.-based GSM carrier, I'd say the odds of the
average person having such a phone is perhaps... 1 in 10?

Granted, trying to use a CDMA phone outside the U.S. is probably a 1 in 1000
shot; I'd be surprised if we could find anyone who has successfully taken,
e.g., a Sprint phone and gotten it to work in, say, Japan. But perhaps I'm
horribly mistaken...