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Is my Tracfone GSM or CDMA? Tracfone GSM Vs Tracfone CDMA. Tracfone has usage contracts with almost all the Cell phone network operators in the US. Verizon, Sprint and Alltel are the biggest CDMA networks in the US. Cingular and T-Mobile are two of the biggest GSM networks in the US.
Tracfone only sells CDMA phones where GSM phones will not work (GSM coverage is terrible in the Mountain northwest--Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota). I believe this is because the rates Tracfone pays to use the CDMA networks is significantly higher than what it pays Cingular and T-Mobile.