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Re: Then why are we still in this situation? said by fAcEtIOUs:said by Chaldo:Look at countries in EURO they all run GSM networks, UMTS HSPA and don't have issues in high populated areas with smart phones more advanced then once's we have been seeing. They have no issue at all. Why AT&T? And you know that how? Let's turn that around upon yourself now; how many people do you know that have problems in Europe? Have you ever read a single story about people complaining that O2, Vodaphone, T-Mobile (Germany) drops calls constantly, has data that immediately slows to a grind whenever more than 12 people are in a convention center, and generally is all over the place? Because if you have, enlighten me with links. My entire family lives over there, and frankly, they laugh at how pitiful the situation is here in the states.
Let's face it, Europe is years ahead of us when it comes to 3G/HSPA/HSPA+ roll outs. It's almost embarrassing how completely sub par GSM rollouts are (T-Mobile just lit up its 3G network, which is the smallest in the US. AT&T is... AT&T), and CDMA is a dead end bag-of-hurt (I'm glad I jumped ship; being constantly plagued by missing calls when my phone's slot cycle index wasn't set quick enough to poll the 1xRTT network during a data transaction, endless supplies of duplicate SMSes, I could go on and on).
So yeah, Europe has managed to do a pretty good job. But keep in mind, Europe is very urbanized and relatively small in size compared to the relatively huge size of the US. Obviously rolling out lot of 3G GSM-camp coverage is going to take a while. The inexcusable part here is that AT&T is rolling in subscription fees and failing it hard at keeping data flowing for customers.
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