Who said they had to provide these features in every single cell zone? As it stands, they already don't. Just look at AT&T's 3G coverage map. Now lets compare any carrier in the states to the services of carriers operating in similar sized countries like Australia. Where 99% of their population has 3G coverage, with data rates approaching well over 21mb. We could even go down the handset route where we are severely limited by what the carriers choose. With a larger population we should have 5 times the handset choices of lets say the UK, yet we have less.
Economics 101. The more equipment a carrier buys the cheaper it is. So these 'population based' excuses simply hold no water. All large cities should have had the latest and greatest. Instead we have 3G networks that are a joke. You can compare a range of large cities or even smaller cities abroad and they usually have much better cell services. I actually achieve greater throughput using a sat service in NYC than I do on a AT&T or Verizon handset. Yet the same 3G handset overseas, in more densely populated cities, achieves 5 times the throughput.
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Who said they had to provide these features in every single cell zone? As it stands, they already don't. Just look at AT&T's 3G coverage map. Now lets compare any carrier in the states to the services of carriers operating in similar sized countries like Australia. Where 99% of their population has 3G coverage, with data rates approaching well over 21mb. We could even go down the handset route where we are severely limited by what the carriers choose. With a larger population we should have 5 times the handset choices of lets say the UK, yet we have less.
Economics 101. The more equipment a carrier buys the cheaper it is. So these 'population based' excuses simply hold no water. All large cities should have had the latest and greatest. Instead we have 3G networks that are a joke. You can compare a range of large cities or even smaller cities abroad and they usually have much better cell services. I actually achieve greater throughput using a sat service in NYC than I do on a AT&T or Verizon handset. Yet the same 3G handset overseas, in more densely populated cities, achieves 5 times the throughput.