On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 10:55:44 -0800, "Joel Kolstad"
<JKolstad71HatesSpam@yahoo.com> wrote in
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>"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?

Both T-Mobile and Cingular will unlock phones on request by customers in
good standing.

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