On Mon, 21 Jan 2013, Chuck Cole wrote: > Note that I greatly respect your views even when I don't share them. > This is not a personal squabble at all. Some folks may benefit from > seeing these different views presented... But time to quit this topic I think it was a good review of the differences. Clearly, GSM is the best choice for people who need to use their phone in other nations. Otherwise, most of the differences between types of service and specific carriers will affect different users in different ways depending on how we travel, whether we can get service at home, etc. Sometimes I think people feel like other people should use the carrier they use, and if other people don't want it, they feel slighted -- their choice was rejected by the other person. It's worse when someone asks your opinion, you give it, and they dismiss it, or at least don't follow your advice. But I think with phone service, a feature that is very important to one person might mean nothing to another person, so we aren't going to rank our preferences in the same ways. I would still like to hear if people are having good luck with the AT&T data service around the Twin Cities (which should mean 4G service). Mike