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GMS vs. TDMA...carrier vs. carrier?
Ok, Can someone answer this??...I have a gsm phone and my other half has a tdma. From what I understand the FCC said that the tdma is to be gone by 2010, if not sooner. The carrier that my other half has (alltel) said that they are going to start switching over to gsm. He was also told that they will not have to change phones, which I believe he was incorrectly informed since a gsm phone works on a sim card. He was told that they would be able to reprogram the phone and it would work fine on the gsm system. Help me out on this one. I work for a cell phone company (cellular one) and he thinks what I'm saying is just a marketing ploy....HELP!!!
tmobile and cingular all used to be tdma, when they switched their networks they had to buy new phones, because you are correct, a phone needs a sim card to work on gsm. unless all of alltels phones are 'gait' or 'hybrid' phones (phones that can work on more than one network) which i doubt, he will have to buy a new phone. see if his phone has a slot for a sim card, if it does that he has a gait phone and all he will need later is a sim card. i did not know alltel was still using tdma, i thought that everyone got rid of it when tmobile and cingular did. verizon and sprint use cdma, and i have not heard anything about either switching to a gsm network