Dealing With The Wireless Industry. Pt. I
This is something new I wanted to start doing that will help me make more sense of this wireless industry. Feel free to give any "good, worthwhile" comments to this post.
Topic of today is the US and why it doesn't get the same great phones that get released in Europe.
I know this has been discussed several times (well mostly just argued) but it makes me 😕 wonder with all the freedoms and perks we Americans have in this country why cant we get some of these great phones without having to order from a third party dealer or from the internet.(Shout Out to Ebay 😉 ) It makes no sense that the World's Most Powerful Country is behind the times on one of the fastest growing consumer products that almost every one uses.
Please guy...
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Topic of today is the US and why it doesn't get the same great phones that get released in Europe.
I know this has been discussed several times (well mostly just argued) but it makes me 😕 wonder with all the freedoms and perks we Americans have in this country why cant we get some of these great phones without having to order from a third party dealer or from the internet.(Shout Out to Ebay 😉 ) It makes no sense that the World's Most Powerful Country is behind the times on one of the fastest growing consumer products that almost every one uses.
Please guy...
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we as americans are slow to adapt to new technology, while in the 80's we were using amps, in europe they were ahead of us using TMDA/GSM which is digital until the mid 90's when CDMA came out
in japan the 3G market is huge, NTT DoCoMo customers are using video calls and taking pictures on their 3-5 megapixel phones while we are here still using VGA*shudders* and 1.3 and rarely 2 megapixel cameras,
hopefully i wasnt too inaccurate
in japan the 3G market is huge, NTT DoCoMo customers are using video calls and taking pictures on their 3-5 megapixel phones while we are here still using VGA*shudders* and 1.3 and rarely 2 megapixel cameras,
hopefully i wasnt too inaccurate
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They way the industry is set up in AMerica causes a lot of restrictions and gives a lot of freedom to the providers and this slows down progress unfortunately. Also remember this equipment is never madde in america. I don't think I have ever seen a phone that said made in america? There is a question for you, can anyone name an american made phone model.
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🤣 If there was one they probably outsourced to India or some other European country already. Any thing to save a dollar.
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I wanna congratulate all you Verizon guys and girls because I hear that Verizon's going to carry that LG Chocolate phone eventually. Its a nice phone with a good design it should sell pretty good. I wanted to add an extra question into the post....Do you think it would be more profitable for carriers if they allowed the customer to choose any phone they wanted as long as it worked with the network?
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I have no information about foriegn countries, but in the US the FCC is the law in this town. It takes FOREVER to get past government regulations and testing.
Equate the status of the American phone market to the prescription drug market. It's often cheaper to buy medicine from Canada than it is to get it stateside with insurance.
Equate the status of the American phone market to the prescription drug market. It's often cheaper to buy medicine from Canada than it is to get it stateside with insurance.
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another point is that in europe most mobile phone companies dont subsidize the cost of their phones, europeans basically have to spend more on the phones but i bet they break their phones much less than we do and its much easier to switch from network to network without buying a new phone (gsm is king there so they have one standard to work with and they developed 3G much faster) but we have freedom of choice to choose cdma or gsm ,
and i think its the fcc's fault on why(this is a gsm matter but it could apply to cdma) europe and the world uses 900mhz and 1.8ghz standard and we had to go incompatible by using 850mhz and 1.9ghz as far as gsm, and this is the same case with W-CDMA
and i think its the fcc's fault on why(this is a gsm matter but it could apply to cdma) europe and the world uses 900mhz and 1.8ghz standard and we had to go incompatible by using 850mhz and 1.9ghz as far as gsm, and this is the same case with W-CDMA
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