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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
Crippled meaning in Europe, you can get coverage anywhere. In the US, you may get coverage, you may not. You may be in a CDMA area but if it isn't *your* CDMA carrier, you might drop to analog. GSM is spotty, CDMA providers have few bluetooth devices, etc.
The cell service here is an absolute joke, especially for people that travel.
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You can get coverage "everywhere" in Europe? That defintion of Europe must probably only include the richer urbanized western part of Europe. And how much area is that compared to the area of the whole US? CDMA coverage is decent considering the huge area and at least you *can* drop to Analog with CDMA unlike GSM which gives you zilch, nada, nothing when you don't get a signal which is pretty often with GSM in the US. Want to check out what the coverage of Analog in the US is like? -
A Side
http://wireless.fcc.gov/services/cel...undaries-B.pdf
B Side
http://wireless.fcc.gov/services/cel...undaries-A.pdf
Now do you understand why you want a phone with Analog capability?!
With CDMA I get digital coverage over most of populated US and analog coverage over 98% of the US. And what makes you think being outside my CDMA carrier is a problem? There is something called digital roaming. So with CDMA you can atleast make an emergency call almost all over the US (made me feel so much more comfortable seeing the Analog signal driving in the vast Yosemite National Park) which isn't what can be said for GSM. I agree that the phone selection for BlueTooth isn't great. However that has *nothing* to do with the technology but business practices. Make the FCC force the carriers to allow phone portability and see what happens. Now the manufacturers can only make phones that the carriers approve and you can buy phones only from them. Change that and everything is different. So yes, barring marketplace issues, technology wise the US has the best cell phone network other than Japan/Korea. Anyone who tells you otherwise is pretty sadly mistaken and misinformed.