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Originally Posted by wifi
AT&T and Unicel use GSM, Verizon uses CDMA (Verizon bought Unicel in NH).
Your coverage on AT&T in these partner areas are dependent on being in range of a Unicel(Verizon) tower that still supports GSM.
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It may be more accurate to state that AT&T supports GSM, the worlds most widely used protocol, while Verizon continues to push their outdated, almost exclusively-US solution.
Standardization can't come soon enough to this market
(and no, I have no connection to any mobile vendor. Just a frustrated international business traveler who constantly has to live with the compromise between Verizon having the best domestic coverage while GSM is best while traveling elsewhere)