This refers to the -X variant which came up recently. Please simply ignore it, I just found no time yet to delete the [-X] from our table of options. The PLS8-US is OK for phone calls. For France the "simple trick" is: Do you want LTE (100Mbit/s) which only works in Europe and even there only on UMTS in some rural areas, or do you want UMTS-global (up to iirc 42Mbits/s) which works pretty much everywhere on this globe? According to your preferences you pick either PLS8-E (Europe LTE) or PHS8 (UMTS). Also note that LTE version costs probably a 20 to 50 bucks more than the UMTS version. We also offer PXS8 for those (US) residents who want to have access to CDMA2000 as well, for Europeans it's quite irrelevant I guess. Cheers jOERG