Comment Re: Flat Rate Wireless... (Score 1) 117
You ignorant little flag waving anonymous patriot you.
No, you were not at all first when it comes to celluar phone technology. This is not the same story that we saw with TV and NTSC vs. PAL. You are not "advancing with the improvements", you are still struggeling with your pathetic backwards cell phone systems that you developed in the '90. Now I see big ad campains for text messages on the tv here, hello! If your cell phone companies got their head out of their ass 10 years ago and headed for GSM, your country would be closer to industrialized nation by now.
Talk about coverage, take a look at Norway with 4.5 million people living in a relatively large country. (Average population density is less than half of the US, one 1/7 of the density of Illinois) The coverage there is almost complete, in every little fjord, by two different companies with GSM. For the very few that are not covered by GSM you have an analog alternative, NMT-450, introduced in 1980 and covered the whole country already by 1985.
I am afraid I have to disappoint you, the US is the followers in this game, not leaders.
No, you were not at all first when it comes to celluar phone technology. This is not the same story that we saw with TV and NTSC vs. PAL. You are not "advancing with the improvements", you are still struggeling with your pathetic backwards cell phone systems that you developed in the '90. Now I see big ad campains for text messages on the tv here, hello! If your cell phone companies got their head out of their ass 10 years ago and headed for GSM, your country would be closer to industrialized nation by now.
Talk about coverage, take a look at Norway with 4.5 million people living in a relatively large country. (Average population density is less than half of the US, one 1/7 of the density of Illinois) The coverage there is almost complete, in every little fjord, by two different companies with GSM. For the very few that are not covered by GSM you have an analog alternative, NMT-450, introduced in 1980 and covered the whole country already by 1985.
I am afraid I have to disappoint you, the US is the followers in this game, not leaders.
