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szlevi I genuinely feel sorry for you for being on the most utterly overpriced, ridiculously expensive provider and paying through your nose for the same service I get on T-Mobile sans having a faster data speed even o HSPA+ than your LTE speeds on VZW, not to mention your phone that does not work on any other network anywhere in the world sans some similarly ill-designed provider in Canada and few more remote places.
Not a VZW fanboy here (I'm a Canadian) but please do some research before you talk about mobile networks and what devices will/won't work where. 1, the "ill-designed provider" in Canada is actually 2 mobile providers with greater Canadian coverage who have both made the switch to HSPA networks but still let their CDMA networks run for the time being. By the way, those two providers had better coverage across all of Canada with their CDMA network than the only GSM carrier in Canada at that point in time. Now said 2 companies have the largest HSPA+ / HSPA-DC / LTE networks in Canada. 2, many of the higher end devices available from Verizon actually have both CDMA and GSM/HSPA built in along with LTE as VZW does realize that they have world-travelling clients who need their phone of choice to work in as many places in the world as possible. This would be why all their top-end BlackBerry phones, all more recent top end Droid phones, and every iPhone from the iPhone 4s and newer have sim card slots and come with a VZW sim card, so that they can be used to roam internationally on GSM / HSPA networks.
As for the faster speeds comment, hey, for all I know you're probably right in many places as the VZW network is probably more congested than the T-Mobile network in many places, and T-Mobile does have the flexibility of that HSPA+ network to complement its growing LTE network. Like I said, I'm a Canadian and don't know the state of networks all over the world. But I do know mobile fairly well.