On 1/13/07, Herbert Graf <mailinglist3@farcite.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 17:17 -0800, William Chops Westfield wrote:
> > People here have noted that it's not quite as internationally-capable
> > as it could be.
>
> Really, why would you say that?
>
> I believe it's quad band GSM. I don't think there are many places in the
> world with cell phone service that doesn't have GSM.
>
> I realize North America, a section of South America and I believe China
> use other standards, but correct me if I'm wrong, in those areas (except
> perhaps China) GSM is also offered.

For 2G/2.5G, the dominate standard in China is GSM. The bigges
player China Mobile (http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CHL)
uses GSM. The 2nd largest player China Unicom
(http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CHU) has both GSM and CDMA
network. There are no commercial 3G service in China yet.

> Frankly, I don't see anything else a better choice, GSM is by far the
> most common cell phone standard in the world.
>

Yes I agree. I used to have a Verizon CDMA phone and it is not
useful back in Singapore. This time I brought the Tri-band mobile
phone used in Singapore to US and I just need to use the prepaid
service from T-Mobile (wrong choice, should have used Cingular)
and I got the service.

Japan and South Korea seem to only use CDMA.
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