Re: STCC Nursing Fall 2009
From what I understood when I bought my smartphone is that some phones run on different wireless systems. Either GMS or CDMA. Some of those that run on gms are tmobile and cingular. While cdma is verizon, nextel, and sprint. (Don't quote me on which is which though!) So if the faculty had bought all gms, if you had sprint you wouldn't be able to pop in your sim card and use it as a phone.
As for adding on wireless internet, I'd more lean toward the possibility that they wouldn't require you to add it. Phone features "shouldn't" be used in the hospital setting anyways, so I don't see much of a reason why they would unless they wanted you to use it in the class setting. You'll have your applications, that's all you should really need.
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