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	Benson	2008-09-17 , 20:16
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Originally Posted by prk60091

forgive my total and complete ignorance....i am on verizon (which is cdma and evdo ) and already pay through the nose for data voice etc.... why care if it comes with voice- can't you use skype/gizmo/grandcentral or some other variant to make a "phone" experience..or is that prohibited on t-mo/att in the states?

Because you could wind up way out in the boonies with only GPRS (or even only GSM) connectivity, and need to make a call to a landline. As long as you've got GPRS, you can IM, but voice isn't likely to work at all. (Though a half-duplex voice channel is theoretically doable.)

Of course, people survived before there were mobile phones, so it's not a necessity.

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