I can see that discussion of the iPhone really opens up a secondary discussion of cellular phone service in the US.-gcti

[(vikm)]

I'm with T-Mobile now for a number of years. Switched from Cingular as I don't dig the 2 year contract. For a good bit of time, T-Mobile was using Cingular towers so my reception was pretty much the same where live. Not sure if that is still the case. It's that two year contract thing that really bothers me. There isn't a phone on the market (until now) that would have had me even considering going back to them. Just went through the demo at Apple.com and that thing is pretty slick.

[vision63]

Earl got your tongue?

[fmgtech]

The real problem is that even if the US had the latest technology, whatever that is, the cell phone companies would totally screw up the handling of it one way or another. I have never seen an industry the is so incompetent as the cell phone industry in the US.