Comment Re:Lies, Damn Lies, and... (Score 1) 426
Until someone looks across the Pacific and notices speeds 30x faster than ours, in which case they will be interrogated while they're drinking champagne in a jacuzzi
Where is the need for a mobile phone? Why can't this be done with just a credit card and an RFID chip instead like the Barclaycard OnePulse. Investing in infrastructure for this kind of card would make a hell of a lot of more sense to me.
Credit cards aren't necessities; cellphones are beginning to be, as they link rural merchants with their market and the rest of the world. Developing countries also prefer cell towers over phone lines for cost issues. They're basically skipping over a century of prototyping. With that said, hitchhiking one extra function onto a guaranteed platform would seem logical enough.
"Take that, you hostile sons-of-bitches!" -- James Coburn, in the finale of _The_President's_Analyst_
