At 11:30 PM 2/18/2010, b_s-wilk wrote: >I've been amazed at the obscure locations outside the US where I get all bars >on my cell phone, even in Mexico near the Belize border, or on remote Greek >islands. Similarly, broadband is so fast and pervasive [and cheap] in much of >Europe, high in the Pyrenees mountains, miles from the closest small village, >with WiFi on nearly empty beaches in Portugal.
Cell networks have been the build-out for under-developed countries to increase overall telephone access. And they likely are profitable, since you can add subscribers to a wireless network much cheaper than to a wired network, I would think. But adding cell phone towers to a sparsely populated area that is already served with a telephone land-line network likely isn't profitable. And cell phone circuit bandwidth isn't nearly real broadband Internet, I don't think. Fred Holmes ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
