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Mon, 26 Jun 2006 or the modern title, "Global System for Mobile Communications," is far and away the most popular form of mobile telephone service in the world. In the US, T-Mobile was the first to provide GSM service, but Cingular has established an extensive network and is slowly subsuming the TDMA remnants of AT&T Wireless Services (mostly by "upgrading" TDMA towers to GSM, thereby dismantling the old network and forcing their subscribers to move from their old cheap plans to newer, more expensive ones). Because of its worldwide popularity, cell phone manufacturers tend to make their best phones for GSM, and other services (notably QualComm's CDMA, used by Sprint PCS in the US) often don't get comparable models. This means that the cell phone hardware market for non-GSM service providers is much less than efficient—in other words, having Sprint forces you into a phone that's crappy, expensive, or both. Moreover, with GSM you can swap your SIM into another phone and you're good to go—a thoroughly awesome feature of the GSM standard. Why am I telling you all this? Because I switched to GSM, of course. Real Soon Now I'll disconnect my 617 number and replace it with a shiny new 512 (yes, I could have taken my number with me, but I know Johnston agrees with me that phone number portability is an abomination). My old number will work for a while, and I'll send out my new number to everyone in my phone book at some point, but if you don't get it from me, send me an email. And the hardware? Motorola's hot little L2, with nothing a phone doesn't need (no more camera phone for me). Exactly the phone I wanted, and it was free from Cingular. [ permalink | 4 comments ] writebacksGautham wrote
repak wrote unlocking is pretty easy, methinks Scott wrote
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