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Old 12-01-2003, 04:48 PM
     
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jlv
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To spicymeatball91: Anyone claiming the SE P800 will work on Sprint might also have a bridge to sell ya, cheap.


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Originally posted by schleifnet
the sony brand has yet to make a cdma phone as far as i know
SonyEricsson makes many CDMA phones. When I was in Japan 6 weeks ago, I was had an SE Au 5402S (http://www.sonyericsson.co.jp/product/au/a5402s/), on KDDI's CDMA network.

However, SE has not won carrier support in the US and, as a result, they announced this past summer that they would no longer try to market CDMA phones in the US. They continue to sell CDMA phones elsewhere in the world.

The problem is that in the rest of the world, consumers have choice of phone. They can (mostly) buy any CDMA phone and activate it on the (CDMA) carrier they want. It doesn't work that way in the US, where Sprint and Verizon want to dictate what phones they will allow on their networks.
 
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