Originally Posted by grbflyer
ive traveled also and have found verizon to have the best coverage EVERYWHERE!
Have you tried to use your Verizon phone outside of the U.S. lately? Verizon's system is CDMA, notoriously incompatible with overseas systems, even overseas CDMA!
OTOH, Cingular & T-Mobile both use GSM, which was designed from the ground up for world-wide compatibility. GSM phones (provided it's at least tri-band) can be used with any GSM system in the world, simply by swapping the SIM card (assuming of course, that your GSM phone is UNLOCKED).