In Europe and Asia, by contrast, a seamless mobile network like GSM (global system for mobile communication) allows cell phone users to make calls as they travel from country to country. On the other hand, the technology battlefield in the United States remains wide open. A primary factor is because the United States has a more advanced wired infrastructure for telecommunications, and Internet services have been built to fit the desktop PC universe.

Within the current digital world of wireless, there are four primary competing technologies: code division multiple access (CDMA), global system for mobile communication (GSM), integrated dispatch enhanced network (iDEN), and time division multiple access (TDMA). The frustration from having these competing technologies is that the major wireless providers in the United States have adopted different standards that are not compatible with each other: AT&T and BellSouth use TDMA; T-Mobile uses GSM; and Verizon uses CDMA along with Sprint which also uses Nextel’s iDEN technology. Furthermore, each of these technologies has their own 2.5/3G track and beyond. For example, GPRS is the next evolution of GSM; 1X is the evolution of CDMA.

BuyToughPC hardware partners utilize the one mobile network technology that is used on a global scale…GSM/GPRS. By integrating this seamless mobile network into their mobile hardware, system integrators, resellers, and end-users can better focus their efforts on their core business initiatives rather than having to determine which carrier offers better world-wide coverage for the mobile work force.