4phun <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in
news:e0c95598-9143-4ec7-906d-875f9aa5185f@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com:


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> Another thing is that GSM adoption is expanding in North, Central and
> South America which will continue the success of the GSM format Apple
> choose to support over CDMA. Verizon is begining to test converting
> their phone system to GSM as already noted.
>

The platform that Verizon is looking at is much more like the CDMA platform
than the GSM platform currently in use.