Of course, the countries with two-way video calling and higher speed networks than we have also have far less land mass to cover. How hard is it to provide wireless coverage to the major population centers in Japan, for example? We have regional carriers in the US that have to cover far larger footprints than many national carriers overseas.
The financial investment required to be a major carrier in the US is far more than in the UK or most other European countries. That's why there's only four here, not because of magical government regulation. I'm fairly sure you can't consider a company with three major competitors a monopoly, anyways.
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Rollins @ May 15th 2009 12:51PM
Of course, the countries with two-way video calling and higher speed networks than we have also have far less land mass to cover. How hard is it to provide wireless coverage to the major population centers in Japan, for example? We have regional carriers in the US that have to cover far larger footprints than many national carriers overseas.
The financial investment required to be a major carrier in the US is far more than in the UK or most other European countries. That's why there's only four here, not because of magical government regulation. I'm fairly sure you can't consider a company with three major competitors a monopoly, anyways.