US Not Quite Ready for High Tech Cell Phones

This pisses me off. There's so much technology available in the Orient that we never get over here or even hear about. I wouldn't care so much if in my area there was a decent cell phone provider that had some nice phones without having to buy one off the net for 500 bucks. :P

go to places like India, you can have a cell phone that recieves free incoming calls and pay $1-2 for each month. Yea we are alot behind in cell phones. Basically @##$$% cell phone provider are making $$$$ off us!

“US not ready for high tech cell phones.”

After all the cell phones are ready for the US, the US just doesn't have the infrastructure in place to handle them. Just a thought ;)

that does make more sense. I'll change it. Thanks.

if funny is israel has better cellular infrastructure, we get these kind of things before the us.

We could fit Japan in North America hundreds of times. It is way easyer to set up something like that than across North America, Coast to Coast. The title is semi-misleading, the US could have them but the network isn't set up. 56k wireless coast to coast would be an accoplishment but would get loaded very quickly and have to be upgraded before it was completed. Not saying anything bad about Japan, but land is at a premium there, that might be why they build an Airport on the ocean (Man made land).

Is a drop in the bucket.

If anyone had that little land with those few a people with subsidies coming in from the U.S....

They'd be sitting pretty financially as well.

[Western] Europe, the UK, Japan, Hong Kong, and Israel are tight-knit high-technology high-population areas.

The U.S. is huge and -- while I certainly don't mean to encourage it, could hold a few more people.

One tower over there to serve people might mean 8 or 10 here, we are so spread out.

Suburbia is something of an American phenomenon, foremostly.

That and the highways, although we got them from Germany originally and then the UK followed us.


I'd like to see the Japanese, etc, come here in our country, and try to reinvent their own (tiny) mousetraps to fit our oversized country.

Not so easily done.


I'm willing to be a few steps behind. Small is nimble, but it also isn't necessarily SUSTAINABLE.

What makes it in the U.S. markets as a 'household item' has STAYING POWER that trendy shit in Europe and Japan simply DOSEN'T.

So they can keep it.

/rant over

"I'd like to see the Japanese, etc, come here in our country, and try to reinvent their own (tiny) mousetraps to fit our oversized country."

You make it sound like they said they could? And with enough money I'm sure they could go into your country and set it up. You made it sound as if it were not possible, but it is, easily.

Well that's a tremendous point to make.

Given (adequate) resources, anyone could do anything.

The point being if they were in our shoes financially et al, they'd be just as stuck as we are infrastructurally.

Big country, big money for infrastructure. There's no comparing Japan, etc, to the continental US.

I've always thought it would make sense for the major carriers to get together and form a single company that owned all the towers. They could agree on a standard that they would all use. This new tower company would bill each company for calls made on the towers. The cell phone companies would make money selling the service and phones, and the company that owned the towers would make profits that would be shared out among the cell phone companies.

The problem right now is that each company has their own frequencies and technology, and this is creating more towers than needed and less of a blanket coverage.

That would hurt big business, though. Capitalism isn't about monopolies :'(

In my idea the 'monopoly' company would be owned in the same proportions as the towers are owned today. So if Cingular owns 40% of all towers ($ value), they would own 40% of this new company. So it's really not a monopoly, just a more cost effective way of running the tower part of the business.

But don't worry I am not the President. None of this will actually happen.

that is so much crap.
If Australia can manage 3G infrastructure why not US? We are just as big as the US in area with 1/10th the population.

@lurker
it is 3G and 4G not gig. G stands for generation. It designates the technology used not the bandwidth.