Hey racewayking,

To answer your question, Smart Scouter currently sends pictures over the Sprint network and its roaming partners such as Verizon and Alltel. With its updated roaming agreements, Sprint has the largest cellular network in the country. There is a coverage map on the SmartScouter.com website. Also, the SmartScouter can be used as a regular digital scouting camera where no coverage is available.If you buy a SmartScouter and a wireless plan and then you find that you do not have coverage, you can return the camera.....but as you probably know, more and more areas of the country currently lacking cellular coverageare getting coverage each and every month.Lastly, the wireless plan does not have to be active all year long. You can choose to de-activate the plan for certain months of the year to save money.....but there are many other cost savings benefits to the technology as well....see the website SmartScouter.com Thanks.............