Not sure if that'd really do much. It's a lot easier to deploy new technologies over a landmass that's around the size of California than it is over the United States. Not to mention that within Japan's landmass, there's a lot of relatively unpopulated mountain ranges and such.
Well, that's kinda what Helio did, only it was Koreans, and they had to deal with what networks were available, so it wasn't that amazing (the phones aren't bad, but asia in general has much better stuff). -Taylor
DoCoMo tried that for a while with pre-Cingular AT&T; you can lead a horse to water and stick its face under (AT&T didn't cover a whole lot of the cost in building its 3G network) but you still can't make it drink (else we'd have phones that actually take advantage of the network's abilities by now- you know, 2-way video calls, and all that).
Oh, and @Rollins- even those "unpopulated mountain ranges" are covered in 3G. Rather dedicated of Japan, something we can't say of America.
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Cassini @ Mar 15th 2008 2:50AM
We need the people who run these networks in Japan to come to North America and run our networks for awhile.
Rollins @ Mar 15th 2008 12:10PM
Not sure if that'd really do much. It's a lot easier to deploy new technologies over a landmass that's around the size of California than it is over the United States. Not to mention that within Japan's landmass, there's a lot of relatively unpopulated mountain ranges and such.
Genjinaro @ Mar 15th 2008 4:50PM
I couldn't agree more. We really need a frickin renovation with all of our carriers.
Taylor @ Mar 15th 2008 5:38PM
Well, that's kinda what Helio did, only it was Koreans, and they had to deal with what networks were available, so it wasn't that amazing (the phones aren't bad, but asia in general has much better stuff).
-Taylor
Jamar @ Mar 16th 2008 5:59AM
DoCoMo tried that for a while with pre-Cingular AT&T; you can lead a horse to water and stick its face under (AT&T didn't cover a whole lot of the cost in building its 3G network) but you still can't make it drink (else we'd have phones that actually take advantage of the network's abilities by now- you know, 2-way video calls, and all that).
Oh, and @Rollins- even those "unpopulated mountain ranges" are covered in 3G. Rather dedicated of Japan, something we can't say of America.
Cassini @ Mar 16th 2008 9:45PM
Some good points. And yes, the States... so much bigger than Japan. That does make a difference, no doubt.
Well, I suppose there's always the option of moving to Japan. Or not.
But I wouldn't mind swimming in all that tech for awhile.