Hi Again. 

  Being new to this, I'm not sure if I answer people individually, or all at once.   No doubt when I get it wrong, ( usually ), someone will point it out [ always!].   Thanks for the notes on layout GRANT17.   I know your're right.    'Readability is everything', as Rupert Murdoch once said.    [Actually, he may not have done, but it sounds plausible.] 

Jama.....you say that Telecom has agreements with most CDMA operators.........but not with most countries!   It really doesn't matter to me who they have agreements with, as long as I can use my phone there.....and in most places I visit, I can't use the Telecom phone.  It has to be the Vodaphone.   Even Bradstewart says that 'Roaming is a pain'.......so not everyone is happy with the current arrangements.  

But Brad does say that the SAMSUNG W531 gives you both.   Which it may well do.   But that is precisely my point.   Getting into bed with the opposition may be convenient, and sometimes expedient, but isn't always the best solution in terms of credibility.   [And the wife may not like it. ]   But I'm well aware that the technological considerations are'nt the only ones in these decisions.  In fact, I'm sure the commercial, political, economic and whatever else you care to think of........come before the technical ones, in many cases.     Ask Sony.   But that's another story.

As for Mclayma, who accuses me of getting on a soapbox,  [ apart from saying "Well said, Brad " !],  I thought airing views and opinions in a Website forum was the Internet equivalent of the old ' Letters To The Editor.....' [Disgusted of Tonbridge Wells......and all that.......]        If you want to say something, then a Website Forum IS the soapbox.....................which is only to give a platform to be heard, after all.......

Or have I got that wrong too ?