When your Verizon handset sees a CDMA carrier, it will lock onto that system and prevent you from roaming onto another provider, even if the CDMA carrier does not offer data capability, which means emails and attachments.

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Expect to see it on a low-end CDMA carrier (like Virgin Mobile or Cricket) near the middle of the year.

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Rumor has it that the nation's largest CDMA carrier begins rolling out its EV-DO Revision A network this Friday, starting with ten cities (Sacramento and Salt Lake City among them) and a little data card we like to call the Sierra Wireless AirCard 595.

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Metro PCS, Cricket, Cincinnati Bell, and the Associated Carrier Group of regional CDMA carriers (ACG) have all mandated the Apkudo Approved process for their new Android devices, so we could be about to see a change in the quality of devices on these networks.

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It signed a deal earlier this year to source phones from an undisclosed Asian contractor that will work with the carrier's chosen technology, code-division multiple access (CDMA).

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Tapping on the preferred network type option, you can select either LTE on its own, or a mix of LTE, GSM and CDMA. According to the videos, the Google phone then taps into your carrier's LTE network if Band 4 is available, and you're good to go.

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To a Sandbridge chip it doesn't matter if your cellular carrier is Sprint or Nextel or whether you are in Europe (GSM) or South Korea (CDMA).

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My advice: use another carrier other than Verizon if you intend on traveling internationally on cruise ships and in any venue that offers CDMA services with which Verizon has a roaming agreement.

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