CDMA v. GSM
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From: Wylie, Texas
Originally Posted by kensteele
unless you're a frequent overseas traveler, it's not really an advantage for the one or two times a year you go. if you do go alot, why not get the best phone and plan you can get for america where you are 95% of the time and get an inexpensive gsm phone that you use only for overseas....or borrow one.
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From: Middle of Jersey
Originally Posted by kensteele
hehe, i guess one of the advantages of gsm is that you can actually make a telephone call, too...huh? 
ok, we know that you just get off the airplane and you power up your own phone that you are used to, all the functions, and that you have all your phonebook number in it and you have all your chargers and accessories, etc.....and that makes it a whole lot easier, you might say that is an advantage of gsm over cdma when you land in a "gsm-only" country. ok, i can be fair and say that's true.
unless you're a frequent overseas traveler, it's not really an advantage for the one or two times a year you go. if you do go alot, why not get the best phone and plan you can get for america where you are 95% of the time and get an inexpensive gsm phone that you use only for overseas....or borrow one.
sprint and verizon and nextel have taken the bite out of overseas travel when it comes to gsm. with cdma popping up all over the world (where you can start to use your cdma phone), it's no longer a cingular/tmobile advantage, more like a convenience. i would never pick a carrier just because they say "when you fly to pakistan, you can use your phone...." otherwise everybody will go to verizon because pretty soon, they'll be saying "can you hear me know" on the moon.
now about that gsm phone of your. what do you do when you are in an area where there is only analog cellular service (which is many places right here at home in the us)? lol
ok, we know that you just get off the airplane and you power up your own phone that you are used to, all the functions, and that you have all your phonebook number in it and you have all your chargers and accessories, etc.....and that makes it a whole lot easier, you might say that is an advantage of gsm over cdma when you land in a "gsm-only" country. ok, i can be fair and say that's true.
unless you're a frequent overseas traveler, it's not really an advantage for the one or two times a year you go. if you do go alot, why not get the best phone and plan you can get for america where you are 95% of the time and get an inexpensive gsm phone that you use only for overseas....or borrow one.
sprint and verizon and nextel have taken the bite out of overseas travel when it comes to gsm. with cdma popping up all over the world (where you can start to use your cdma phone), it's no longer a cingular/tmobile advantage, more like a convenience. i would never pick a carrier just because they say "when you fly to pakistan, you can use your phone...." otherwise everybody will go to verizon because pretty soon, they'll be saying "can you hear me know" on the moon.
now about that gsm phone of your. what do you do when you are in an area where there is only analog cellular service (which is many places right here at home in the us)? lol
enough said..
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From: sactown
Originally Posted by kensteele
Otherwise you should know that eventually GSM is going away in favour of the better technology, CDMA.
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From: Overland Park, Kansas
Originally Posted by bimmer88
not for a long long time... if ever... hahha... there's got to be a reason as to why most of the world uses GSM...
There is only one reason why GSM is all over Europe (has nothing to do with being the best technology):
"Although the European Union faced a rocky road implementing a single currency throughout the 11 member nations, the EU has been very successful in convincing European telecommunications companies to develop a single standard for mobile phones.
When mobile phones began emerging in the late 1980s, the European Union pushed companies like Nokia and Ericsson to forgo developing competing standards and instead collaborate on one digital standard for mobile phones. The resulting Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) has ended up as the continent-wide standard."
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From: Lenexa, KS
Originally Posted by suXor
It already is. Verizon's EVDO network is up and runnig, and I think SPrint is not far behind.
Sprint is REAL far behind. Verizon is in 12-14 cities. Sprints launch is nothing but a marketing joke. The ammount of cell sites that are actually EVDO capable is nothing to talk about at the moment. And will be like that for the next 1-2 years.
ahh marketing... i can see them thinking now. We'll put a few EVDO cell sites out there. Say we can do EVDO, and not tell our customers that 99% of the time you'll be using 1xRTT mode.
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