From: "Randy H" 

Here's how the US map looks:

Verizon: CDMA
Cingular: TDMA and GSM, going to all GSM AT&T: TDMA, moving to GSM
Sprint: CDMA
T-Moblile: GSM
Nextel: iDEN
Alltel: CDMA
US Celluar: CDMA


"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
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> On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 07:54:34 +0200, Phil Payne
>  wrote:
>
> >> Isn't that the same system the Kuwaiti's use? I've heard reports that
GI's
> >> stateside cell phones work in Kuwait.
> >
> >http://www.vodafone-roaming.co.uk/coverage/africa/kuwai/kuwmtcl.gif
> >
> >Kuwait, like 142 countries around the world using 335 networks with 800
> >million subscribers, is GSM.
> >
> >This is the American attitude in microcosm.  Time to smell the coffee.
>
> AT&T Wireless and Voicestream both offer GSM services now; my
> coworkers who go overseas are using products from both.  They tell me
> all they need to do is change a component (I don't remember if it is a
> chip or a "card" of some sort) of the phone to make them work when
> traveling.  Cingular wireless announced their intentions to convert
> their network to GSM, but I don't know what kind of progress they are
> making.  Verizon seems to be a holdout, stuck on CDMA.

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