Well, when it finally happens, I guess it will allow me to select from a wider variety of phones. Up 'til now, I have always carried a dual or tri mode phone to include analog and digital services. Most of the phones are all digital now, as the original post indicates. In some of the areas that we camp and hike, there are sometimes analog signals, and no digital service. I think the more rural areas have been last on the list for upgrades to digital. I had been holding out and only picking from the handful of options that covered both services, but, I guess that won't be something to think about anymore. (Maybe that means Verizon will have converted all the old analog cell sites by February?)