The percentage of returned gadgets that have nothing wrong with them.
Of the $13.8 billion worth of returned products in 2007, only 5 percent were because gadgets were actually broken, according to a 2008 study.
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Red_Munk,
Actually, WCDMA / HSDPA is the "global standard".
As for the different frequency bands, no one had a choice in that.
Europe's 2100 band overlaps with our 1900 band, so the only way we could have the 2100 band here in the US is if the FCC revoked all of the 1900 MHz licenses. That's what 100% of Sprint and T-Mobile's networks use, so those two companies would basically be out of business. Cingular and Verizon also use plenty of 1900 MHz spectrum, so they'd have to shut down half of their networks as well.
...not really a viable option.