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Originally Posted by NOT THE BLUE LAMPSHADE
Are you kidding? GSM is fucking awesome in America. ATT and Tmobile have almost completely, if not 100%, replaced all their old systems and towers and bought out contracts from the FCC for GSM networks. ATT has the best 3g coverage, but Tmobiles is only awesome near major metropolitan areas. So I don't know where people think that we need to get with the tech times on GSM. CDMA is an old technology from way back when, and yes it has been greatly improved over the years, but over 80% of the world cell phone networks run on GSM (CDMA pretty much doesn't exist andywhere in Europe, at least it didn't when I lived there 3 years ago.)
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No I'm not kidding. Maybe you may have misunderstood what I was meaning by saying that America needs to get with the times, by which I mean they need to get more into GSM and away from CDMA. Also AT&T doesnt have to best 3g coverage, not by along shot. Maybe in major metro areas such as the cities where your from, but offers nothing for the rest of us unlike Verizon which even in the boonies where I'm from has amazing 3g and basically real nation wide cell coverage. Take Fargo for example, an huge amount of people there and no 3g, hell they dont even have AT&T service there, I could be driving around in the heart of the city and not even have one bar. And as far as AT&T 3g goes, if I'm driving 5 miles north of ST. Cloud it disappears completely where any of my friends with Verizon or Sprint (who steals service from all other CDMA towers as part of their plan) will have full services of all kinds.
So in conclusion unless you live in a major city or anywhere else on planet Earth AT&T is a horrible choice, and I regret joining them from day one, but I love the phone. And if you dont believe me you can even go to all the companies websites and check out their coverage viewer maps and zoom in closer to see where actual coverage is available and AT&T's is shitty.