[_Jim]

but my local Cingular dealer says their decisions are based on the caust of broadcasting,

Geez kid ... you're talking to some sales types who received a few hours of training for their job ... they aren't the engineers or the system designers or the analysts who review the numbers up front in the business office where all these 'costs' are actualy seen and evaluated each month!!!

Okay, fine. Believe what some ex-shoe salesman-type tells, you ...

[Defiant]

Right. The salespeople on both sides are clueless. Go to a Sprint store and ask a technical question, and you will get answers that are downright funny. At the ATT stores, if you ask why they don't do CDMA, they'll make up some excuse that the salespeople have been told to say, but they have no understanding of the technology or the business reasons that the camps have lined up the way they have.