re: #53 ArchangelMichael

The iPhone was made for GSM networks. In the US AFAIK only AT&T and T-Mobile use GSM. Everyone else is CDMA and it’s various versions. The rest of the world is, again AKAIK, all GSM. Use on other carriers in the US would require different hardware. AT&T and Apple have a exclusivity contract, and Verizon put out several advertisements attacking not AT&T but Apple and the iPhone directly so don’t hold your breath waiting for that contract to go away.

Yeah the situation in Canada was similar for years here too. Rogers and their subsidiary Fido were GSM, everyone else was CDMA. Exclusive iPhone contracts, whole thing. But this fall Bell and Telus setup a HSPA+ network (Basically the 3g only component of most GSM networks. I.E my iPhone can’t fall back to a voice only network) , and since most smaller operators simply resell Bell, its essentially leveled the playing field. Its great to see.