Unfortunately, I'm not too "hip" on what GSM is. I currently use Verizon
(tri-mode) because I need a US nationwide plan, no roaming, so I can
maintain contact during most of my travels. However, I may be heading to
London next week and it will not work there. Verizon offers a temporary
international phone though. I'm still pondering that option.
And dead spots - here in the west, we have some pretty remote areas where I
have no signal at all for large areas. Would GSM do any better? In
particular I have no cell phone signal for most of Northwest South Dakota
(100 mile + stretch), about a 50 mile stretch around Wall, SD, and also
almost all of the Arizona Strip (northwest Arizona with a weak unusable
signal at the south rim of the Grand Canyon, nothing at the North Rim north
to Utah). And those are just the flat lands.
And yes, a cell phone is no substitute for a good set of tools.
David Councill
67 BGT
72 B
At 10:54 PM 1/22/2004 -0500, Matthew E. Hale wrote:
>I have Cingular and really like it. The GSM network will really worth the
>wait in my opinion. I am getting a Quad band phone next week that will be
>worldwide, excellent because I do a little traveling to London every now and
>then. Their previous network setup was hit and miss Atlanta, but improved
>once you left the metro area. Odd because Cingular is based in Atlanta...
>
>Matthew Hale
>67 B
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