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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's right. In the US you have GSM and CDMA phone networks. Europe is all GSM, so no problem swapping carriers.
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Still, I'm sure you can see why the ability to switch to any carrier but Verizon would appeal to someone who lived Stateside.
If smartphones offered that option, I'd be able to choose the best carrier pricing at any given time -- and despite Americans' advantage in terms of hardware pricing, the place where Europeans tend to have the pricing advantage is service.
I'd be glad to have a multicarrier-enhanced SIM that allowed me to choose the least expensive and most regionally dense service depending on where I was and what the market dictated.
The advantage to having EE included as an accepted carrier would be that I could use the same phone with Sprint that I did if I traveled to London.
Heady stuff for people who live in the United States and have spent lifetimes dealing with exclusivity-enforcing monopolies.