Blame rests solely with the FCC. They took an eternity to clear out only part of the necessary bandwidth to start auctioning 3G (that's why America's 3G will be 2100/1700, except for AT&T's plain 1900 and 850 networks, whereas the rest of the world has 2100/1900). The carriers once cared- the old AT&T partnered with DoCoMo and even got some of the nice phones that were sold in Japan (then they dumped the partnership when they joined Cingular; they're starting to pick it back up now that they're AT&T again, which is nice).
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Blame rests solely with the FCC. They took an eternity to clear out only part of the necessary bandwidth to start auctioning 3G (that's why America's 3G will be 2100/1700, except for AT&T's plain 1900 and 850 networks, whereas the rest of the world has 2100/1900). The carriers once cared- the old AT&T partnered with DoCoMo and even got some of the nice phones that were sold in Japan (then they dumped the partnership when they joined Cingular; they're starting to pick it back up now that they're AT&T again, which is nice).