dOn Sun, 08 Apr 2007 10:00:16 -0700, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com>
wrote in <46191fa2$0$27242$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>:

>Don Udel (ETC) wrote:
>
>> Come on Scott. You never heard of an unlocked phone?
>>
>> Don
>
>Very few customers buy unlocked phones, unless they are buying them
>solely for use with prepaid SIM cards outside of the U.S.. The subsidies
>from the carrier on phones are rarely passed up.
>
>While there are small differences in the RF quality of various phones,

The differences can actually be quite significant, particularly between
the best phones and cheap bargain phones -- I've seen many cases where
the former could make good quality calls while the latter would be
nearly or completely unusable. This is true both for GSM/UMTS and for
CDMA2000.

>every time anyone comments on the relative quality and coverage of
>various carriers, Navas claims that the person must have gotten a bad
>phone, because in his single user tests, he has no coverage issues.

Your usual ad hominem, nothing of substance, and untrue on all counts.

--
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John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ>