03-17-2016, 04:09 PM
pRICE cUBE wrote:
Thanks for clearing that up. I saw Sim card and assumed it meant GSM.
I can see the confusion. The newer phones that can do both traditional GSM and CDMA have to use (or offer the option for) SIM cards for the GSM part. I don't know if this effectively means that eventually all Verizon and Sprint phones will use SIM cards, since LTE is now part of the GSM standard. Probably they will, as it's needed for international travel, and they won't want to be left out of that, especially if AT&T and T-Mobile offer international on all their phones. Also, the radio chip sets available will probably offer it as a default. But then again, Verizon and Sprint went on for years with phones that mostly did not work abroad, and I understand most cellphones actually contain an FM radio as part of the chip set, but makers rarely enable it.