Is it a distant, enlarged way to Tipperary? Don’t know whether you’re on the path to Bath?

AT&T Inc. aims to help, with a new phone service that truly puts the “global” in the Global Positioning System, or GPS.

On Tuesday, it introduced the AT&T Navigator Global Edition, a service that for the first day allows some of its phones to supply GPS navigation overseas. AT&T said it is the only plan of its kind from a U.S. carrier.

The plan costs $19.98 per month and works with seven “smart” phones: four BlackBerry models, plus the Tilt, BlackJack II and Moto QTM 9h.

Its maps cover most of Western Europe (Tipperary is in Ireland, Bath in England), Canada, Mexico and six cities in China

that will host the Olympics that summer.

The service uses notes connections to download maps, so an universal details roaming plan is strongly recommended. It’s not strange for society who don’t have universal roaming plans to come home from trips to find charges of hundreds of dollars.

AT&T has a BlackBerry universal details plan that covers includes domestic and universal use for $64.99. For other phones, worldly notes roaming costs $24.99 per month on top of a domestic plan.

The service doesn’t work with Apple Inc.’s new iPhone 3G, even though it has a GPS chip. AT&T spokeswoman Jeannie Hornung said the company is working with Apple to enable AT&T applications, including Navigator, to run on the iPhone.

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