There is nothing Congress (or even wireless carriers, really) can do to force handset makers to bring more advanced phones to the US. They don't do it because there simply isn't a big enough market for it here. There is still a significant portion of the population who just wants a phone to make and receive phone calls. Over here, we've been weaned on landlines and internet via computers, while people in Europe and Asia have been doing that through mobile lines for much longer. That history is what causes the difference in usage.
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There is nothing Congress (or even wireless carriers, really) can do to force handset makers to bring more advanced phones to the US. They don't do it because there simply isn't a big enough market for it here. There is still a significant portion of the population who just wants a phone to make and receive phone calls. Over here, we've been weaned on landlines and internet via computers, while people in Europe and Asia have been doing that through mobile lines for much longer. That history is what causes the difference in usage.