Hah, it's funny how Verizon tries so hard to market their BB as a WORLD EDITION Get you almost ANY AT&T phone and it'll be a "world edition" phone. GSM is the global standard. CDMA is garbage. ANY phone nowadays can text internationally, as long as you type in the # correctly and have the right provisioning, which should be any regular text provisioning.

BB messaging works just like any chat (AIM/MSN/ICQ/etc...), and it is included when you get the BB data plan, so this means if someone has a BB overseas and you have their PIN #, you can message each other back and forth without having international charges

BB's are awesome phones