I also live in Puero Rico and as the person mentioned before it is not a country, it belongs to the United States as a territory. It will never be independant and hopefully will be a state one day. That is if the population would get their act together and learn English. Sad how long ago the U.S. came in and set free Puerto Rican's from horrible Spanish oppression yet most Puerto Rican's still identify themselves as a Spanish. This island is very beautiful, fairly corrupt, and needs to have state and enforced federal laws badly. If you have never lived outside the continental U.S. then you will not understand. There is a reason why more then twice as many Puerto Rican's love outside of Puerto Rico compared to inside...
On the other note... We have AT&T here and the 3G coverage is fairly good close to metro area's. Just no Apple stores and no iPhone. Though I have had mine for over a year now and picking up my 3G next week. So no need to unlock.
If you live here you must know we are a colony and that does not mean we are not a country. look for the definition on internet of colony. Also if you followed our situation on the iphone by apple we are latin americans, so on iphone matter we still a country...
In wikipedia i found this:
"In political geography and international politics, a country is a political division of a geographical entity. Frequently, a sovereign territory, the term is most commonly associated with the notions of both state and nation, and also with government.
In common usage, the term is used casually in the sense of both nations and states. Definitions may vary. It is sometimes used to refer to both states and some other political entities,[1] while in some occasions it refers only to states.[2] It is not uncommon for general information or statistical publications to adopt the wider definition for purposes such as illustration and comparison.[3]
There are non-sovereign territories (subnational entities, another form of political division or administrative division within a larger nation-state) which constitute cohesive geographical entities, some of which are former states, but which are not presently sovereign states. Some are commonly designated as countries (e.g. England, Scotland and Wales), while others are not (e.g., Cornwall, Brittany and Texas). The degree of autonomy and local government varies widely. Some are possessions of states, as several states have overseas dependencies (e.g., the British Virgin Islands, Netherlands Antilles, and American Samoa), with territory and citizenry separate from their own. Such dependent territories are sometimes listed together with states on lists of countries.[3]"
and here a
list of countries
