Thanks, Tom. I wander away for half a day, suddenly we're onto Canadian medicine.
Everyone should understand that each country over there has several telcom companies, competing in the marketplace - hardly socialised. It's just that they agree to use the same standard - and multiband - gsm system. Everyone comes out ahead. My friends coming here from there are amazed at our supine acceptance of utter mediocrity. Taking the Reverend's point that more towers are needed in a larger place such as the US, wouldn't it make greater sense to have those towers available uniformly to all companies? Save the redundant outlay for better service? Wouldn't it make more sense to purchase the handset one wishes, merely switch sim cards, instead of trashing a useless unit on deciding to switch to another company? My t-mobil service is hardly perfect here, but my handset becomes a Maserati everywhere over there. Our buy, then dump economic mentality gives me great concern. Chad --- On Tue, 7/1/08, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [CGUYS] US is access loser > To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM > Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2008, 9:53 AM > >Over there, one receives signal in the depth of metro, > the remote of > >mountains, in the middle of water. Row together, all > benefit. Until > >then, we in the US will waste time and money with 19th > century > >equivalence, a burden to all. > > But here we are wiser. Taking cues from Microsoft, US > businesses have > learned the benefits of incompatibility. The best way to > retain clients > is to make them fearful of using any system but yours. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, > archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at > http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
