Frank Stone writes us from Iraq, where he is currently on temporarily assignment.

Well-traveled in the Middle East, Europe, and the U.S., Frank has  been experiencing some signficant service gaps in his T-Mobile BlackBerry coverage. If any of you readers can help shed some light on the problem and perhaps even offer a solution, it would be appreciated.

Frank says that he obtained good coverage last year in France, Germany, Italy and Israel, but now, he is unable to get coverage in Kuwait or Iraq.

He wonders if the location is to blame for his lack of coverage, is there a setting he needs to change.

"I have strong signal (5 bars,) but can't get past 'GSM" which means I can neither send or receive," he writes. He's already tried sending the registration message and performing a network scan.

If any BlackBerry users currently or recently in Iraq or Kuwait have any suggestions, for Frank, it would be deeply appreciated.