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Comment by tolmasky | Hacker News Reader

Can someone explain what the international story would be like with a Verizon phone (and thus CDMA)? Would it work in Canada? Would I need a completely different phone if I traveled anywhere else?

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from Verizon (CDMA coverage)

    * Bermuda
    * Canada
    * Dominican Republic
    * Guam
    * Israel 
    * Mexico 
    * Northern Mariana Islands
    * South Korea

http://support.vzw.com/faqs/International%20Services%20and%2...

Not sure if Verizon has any roaming plans with, but India, China & Japan also have mobile carriers using CDMA

There's a chance that Apple will build the phone with both radios.

Most CDMA carriers offer "world" edition phones with a secondary gsm antenna and sim slot for use overseas. I believe the verizon iPhone will include these "world" attributes.

From the article: Unfortunately for globe trotters, the first version of the phone likely won't be built to work outside the U.S. -- it probably won't carry a special chip that can turn it into a "world phone." However, it may have some of the features on the iPad distributed in Verizon's stores, like live TV for customers of the FiOS cable service.

This is what I've been hearing from the rumors anyways, so no big surprise. The interesting thing to watch for will be whether the next gen (iPhone 5th generation) for Verizon will use CDMA + GSM for international, or if Verizon will have a 4G network up in time to make it unnecessary.

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