>WRONG. If you are careful to buy a 'tri-band' GSM cellular phone, which operates on 900MHz, 1800MHz and 1900MHz you can also use it more or less anywhere in USA. And more or less everywhere around the world. I know this for sure, I have had several tri-bands over the years. And I travel a lot!

I am not so sure that you can use these phones "more or less anywhere in USA". The network is still in its infancy in this country and the coverage is not very impressive as of yet - go to http://www.t-mobile.com/coverage and you'll see rather clearly what I mean.

Laterness,
Jon