Motorola Inc. unveiled a mobile phone it said consumers will be able to use almost anywhere in the world, at a wireless industry show taking place in Atlanta this week.
The world's No. 2 mobile phone maker, said the phone, which it plans to market in North America in the second half of this year, will let consumers use their cell phones while roaming between networks that use incompatible standards.
The phone will work on networks run on Global System for Mobile communication (GSM), the world's most heavily used wireless standard which is used in networks throughout Europe, and on those using Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), a technology used by some in the United States and Asia.
The biggest U.S. mobile provider Verizon Wireless, owned by Verizon Communications and Britain's Vodafone, said recently it expected to offer its customers a dual-standard phone by April this year.
Verizon, which runs its network on CDMA technology while its part owner Vodafone operates on GSM, is expected to offer a world-phone from Motorola's smaller rival Samsung Electronics.
Motorola did not say which providers would sell its phone.
