Prepaid, do you have to buy Their phones?

As far as I know they wont.

 

TracFone, Net10 and all the CDMA prepaid providers will only let you use specific phones. The GSM carriers such as cingular or T-Mobile will let you use any compatible phone.

 

I'm rather surprised there aren't any other GSM Prepaid providers.

 

Tracfone also offers GSM service.

P.S. So does Net 10.

So GSM prepay is offerd by Tracfone, Net 10, Cingular and Tmobile. Net10 is a registered trademark of Tracfone, BTW

 

It's better than Canada. There's only only one national GSM operator there with one smaller provider in the Yukon.

 

I believe there are a couple others..telus and rogers all have GSM coverage in Canada. My T-Mobile phone roams with Rogers I do believe

 

Bzzt! Wrong. Telus Mobility and Bell Mobility are both CDMA operators. The only national GSM operator in Canada is ROGERS. There were two independent GSM operators Rogers and Fido but since Rogers bought Fido a couple of years ago there is now only one national GSM operator. If you check GSM world you'll see that there are only two operators listed Rogers and another very small carrier up in the Yukon Territory. And my original reply said that only Rogers was the only national GSM operator. So you agreed with me!