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How much will Sprint Charge?

habib_15

Apr 25, 2007, 10:39 AM
How much will Sprint Charge to use the CDMA network and use there SIM card on GSM networks, or will it be usual roaming charges. Also how much do you think this phone will sell for? That would be freaking sweet if you could use it on any network for your standard contract price and it would automatically switch to the network with the strongest signal.
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Rich Brome

Apr 25, 2007, 11:25 AM
To be clear, this phone and the Sprint SIM card will not work on domestic GSM networks.

Both are strictly for roaming on overseas GSM 900/1800 networks only.
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habib_15

Apr 25, 2007, 12:34 PM
Oh, that kinda sucks. They should make it work in the US too, then you could have a phone with email access in like 99.999% of the country.
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Rich Brome

Apr 25, 2007, 1:05 PM
Carriers have no reason to offer such a phone, and manufacturers won't build what carriers don't want.
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Jayshmay

Apr 26, 2007, 12:18 AM
Why doesn't it ever matter what CUSTOMERS want??? I don't appreciate carriers deciding for me what handsets I should have, and which I shouldn't have, that's why I've had an unlocked handset for over a year.
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jskrenes

Apr 26, 2007, 9:36 AM
Because the wireless industry is a competetive for-profit industry, not a public service. Wireless companies, like all businesses, have no obligation whatsoever to their customers, only to their shareholders.

With that in mind, why should Sprint or Verizon release a phone that roams off of ATT's towers when it could be picking up its own carrier's tower? Then the company has to pay roaming to the other carrier, and since Verizon doesn't pass on roaming charges to the customer (I don't think Sprint does either, at least on certain plans), they are losing money every time a customer makes a call. And if a wireless carrier is losing money on its subscribers, they are NOT customers, they are liabilities.

The only way around this would b...
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Jayshmay

Apr 26, 2007, 9:42 AM
All very good points
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renardlee

Apr 25, 2007, 11:48 PM
wont happen
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