CDMA might suck but when it's all you got you learn to deal with it. Try using a GSM/GPWS phone in Cheyenne WY or Rapid City SD or just about anywhere in the midwest for that matter. We've had alot of frustrated contractors visit us who found out their TMobile and Sprint phones were non-operational when they stepped off the plane. I for one am hoping for a speedy release of the CDMA version of the 7100?.