From: jishnu@nospam.verizon.net

On 4/22/2015 3:47 PM, John Levine wrote:
> In article ,
> Jishnu Mukerji   wrote:
>> I have generally found the claim that "rest of the world exclusively
>> uses GSM" to be patently false. Everywhere in the rest of the world that
>> I have visited often which includes places in both Europe and Asia in
>> addition to GSM it is not at all difficult to find CDMA service.
>
> I would be astonished if you could find CDMA service in the UK, France,
> or Germany.  All of their carriers are exclusively GSM.
>
> One of the reasons cell service works better there is that most
> carriers have roaming agreements so they fill in each other's coverage
> holes.  It's quite easy to see the network name change on your phone
> as you move around.
>

Yeah, but UK, France and Germany are a miniscule part of the rest of the
world. Actually the availability of CDMA is so pervasive that cellular
handset companies are producing some serious dual system phones. It is
possible that GSM exclusivity is purely a subset of Europe phenomenon.
My experience in Asia does not indicate exclusive use of GSM at all.

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