How come the U.S

[SEXYBEAST]

Does not recieve the phones sooner from the manufacter, seems like all the other countrys get the new models quicker than we do,how come?

[arsa]

well i think its because that the worlds biggest manufacturers of cellphones arent USA based. Most of them are in Europe and Japan and Korea. And the US citizens dont have that much cellphones so it is regarded as a small market for cellphones.
in Sweden for example about 8 out of 10 people have cellphones. and that was 2 years ago.

[arsa]

btw exept Motorola. Motorola is the only cellphone company that is American. and one other thing. USA has another system than the rest of the world. So having another system. having only one cellphone company, and not using that many cellphones its regarded as a low income market
so go out there and buy phones and say your american hehe

[waterman277]

I think the reason has little to do with where the manufacturers are based and a little more to do with the ethnocentric profit-at-all-costs attitude in the U.S. and Canada. In Europe, and southeast Asia, they use one standard for wireless technology, GSM. They also all managed to agree on one set of frequencies, namely 900/1800. So if you buy a phone in England, you can happily go anywhere in Europe (at least western) or most of southeast Asia, and your phone will work. In the U.S. and Canada, we have implemented the following 5 (!) mutually exclusive wireless standards: AMPS, TDMA, CDMA, iDEN, GSM. Ah ha you say, but GSM coverage in the US and Canada is getting better, so how come we don't get rest of the world's great phones. In North America, in all our wisdom, we have implemented GSM on the 1900/800 frequencies. So cell phone manufacturers must release different versions of their phones for NA or Europe/Asia. Wireless market penertration in Europe is much higher than US/Canada (probably because of our stupid non-standard), so at the end of the day, when a manufacturer releases a model, the Europe/SEA market is much, much larger than the NA market, so that is the one they focus on.

Write your cell provider, tell them to get their heads out their a**es and join the rest of the world. They can fight out the spectrum ownership issues among themselves!

[profet]

Originally posted by waterman277
Write your cell provider, tell them to get their heads out their a**es and join the rest of the world. They can fight out the spectrum ownership issues among themselves!

forget providers...write the FCC.