damn thats a cool map. good post

 

I'm all about the GSM

 

pretty sweet

 

DAMN when will CDMA catch up

 

there is not that big of gap, In america there is more GSM and in Europe more GSM, but I think overall its not that much more.

 

So when can u take a CDMA phone everywhere?

 

When Hell freezes over lol, Maybe sometime in the future

 

Does that map come in extra large?

 

Sorry I couldn't find a larger map. Maybe someone can figure out how to enlarge it. I'll see if I can find a big, better one.

The map gives you an idea of how widespread CDMA is growing. Only a few short years ago, it was in the US only and few other places. No CDMA in Europe because of course, CDMA (or competing technologies) is still illegal there for the most part. Otherwise the grey shows that both GSM/CDMA coexist. Not that Africa is still dominated by GSM, there's probably as much GSM there as it is POTS or plain old telephone service. South of the border, CDMA rocks.

Right now today, you can take your Sprint phone to about 40 countries. No sim card needed.
http://www.sprint.com/business/produ...lRoamingPC.jsp

 

same thing with verizon...

 

Well, they won't let you use global roaming unless you get a quad mode handset (world phone) that has GSM and CDMA though.

http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/m...hone/index.jsp

 

So the phone you are referring to is the Samsung World phone, it is a basic CDMA phone for everyday use in the US and it also has a GSM radio in it along with the required GSM sim-card. When you use this phone, the number of countries that you can roam to is >100, you can basically use this phone wherever GSM is available....no limits. The Samsung World phone from Sprint is unlocked, so have fun.

If you use any other regular Sprint phone or Verizon phone, the ones without the sim cards, your number of country choices are decreased to around 40. That's 40 places that have CDMA roaming agreements with Sprint and/or Verizon. That number is growing; one day it will be practically everywhere. So today if you go to New Zealand, S. Korea, or Hong Kong, you can pull out your Sprint phone and make the [expensive] call....

 

^^ you beat me to it..i was gonna get the list of countries where you can use your phone and post it...but to lazy...

 

CDMA Rocks out with its COCK OUT YEA GO VZW

 

Dont you know Verizon Never stops working for you, and Sprint makes everything better with there Pin Drops

 

Dont forget alltel

 

I know how it works, my point was that Verizon requires you to have aworld phone for them to provide international roaming. I guess if you don't get a world phone, the other carrier's VLRs won't have your info, because Verizon did not submit it.

 

I didn't know that. That's too bad...because there's alot of CDMA popping up all over, so you don't have to have a world phone, you can use your own phone. Any idea why Verizon is not taking advantage?

 

Not sure. Doesn't make a lot of sense to me. If I want to maintain my trimode CDMA handset, they should allow international roaming, and advise of the CDMA markets you will be able to use it.

Maybe it's a billing/logistical thing?

Who knows....