Re:My view (Score 1)

Mod this up, it's entirely true. In the UK, they started about 8 years ago selling phones for 30 or so, with pay-per-call, no contract deals. That didn't catch on, they were making a loss on the phones because lots of people just bought the phone "for emergincies" - I did. About 6 months later, they had massive advertising campaigns, with SMS text messaging, trying to appeal to teenagers, and it's worked. Most teenagers now have a phone, it's on an ordinary contract (about 13 a month?). The next thing was changing the colouror your phone, then the colour of the display, and the buttons. Then we got WAP (~internet) on there, and with a proper screen you could surf pr0n, in B+W, at the back of the class ;-) That was probably about 4 years ago. Now we've got picture messaging, and phones smaller than a very small thing, and Java games. I think the reason the US is slower to catch on is the vast area - in the UK, there's about 90% + coverage for phones, in the US the investment required for this coverage would be massive, so there's something of a vicious circle. What's the signal coverage like, btw? If I broke down on the highway in New Mexico, could I use my phone?