It's definitely the whole "proprietary" thing. The only reason UMTS and EVDO aren't doing better is because UMTS has hella expensive price plans and EVDO doesn't have any nice phones here (see, would-be UMTS users solve this problem by importing Japanese phones; EVDO users can't do this without losing data)
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It's definitely the whole "proprietary" thing. The only reason UMTS and EVDO aren't doing better is because UMTS has hella expensive price plans and EVDO doesn't have any nice phones here (see, would-be UMTS users solve this problem by importing Japanese phones; EVDO users can't do this without losing data)