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I went to motorola.com, clicked "Learn More" about the Moto E, then clicked Buy Now, and the first "option" I was presented with was this:

http://cl.ly/image/3E3y0m083j2I

After that, I was shown options "US GSM" and "Global GSM", both priced identically. Why even ask me? All they did was add clicks between me and giving them money.

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They have to ask you. They're two different phones and they don't know which you want.

Maybe you want a phone to use in the US. Or maybe you want something cheap for travel or for sending to a family member overseas or ...

Come on, GP obviously meant the step with the single choice dropdown was redundant

According to http://forums.androidcentral.com/moto-g/338376-differnces-be...

                UMTS/HSPA+
    Global      850/900/1900/2100
    US          850/1700/1900

So unless you absolutely need that 1700MHz band for 3G from your provider, Global is probably the better option...

That 1700mhz is a tmo-licensed band for the US that offers UTMS AWS, which provides 3g at rather snappy speeds. If you're not intending to go abroad, the US edition makes sense. If else, the global model has pretty nearly every widely-deployed 3g band.

Does anyone use that band besides T-Mobile USA? I feel like there must be some Latin American country that does...

It would probably be more expensive to make a single model that could use all communications bands. Different countries use different frequencies.

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