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MATHA531 · 30-05-2006, 19:56

Let me start out by saying I'm not a technologically blessed person but just an end user who has acquired some knowledge by participating in this forum.

This business of the USA being "behind"; I brought up a while ago. Some have answered me something to the effect that while the USA participated in the decision to make gsm and the 900 frequency the prime mobile standards, they found that a lot of communications stuff was already on 900 and it would have been very expensive to change....nobody at the time dreamt of such things as everybody walking around with a mobile phone, international roaming and stuff like that. And the decision to use 800 as the auxilliary frequency (which is 850) for gsm carriers in the US was due to the fact that cingular already had licenses to operate on that frequency so that was that....it has become very nasty in terms of getting a hold of tri band phones that use 900/1800/1900. For a while T Mobile US carried such phones but now that 850 carriers exist in the USA and they roam on some of them, all their tri bands are the useless for European travel 850/1800/1900...I am most partial to Nokia phones, people tell me Moto phones suck so it is a problem for me to upgrade my phones.

Now as far as other things, other than driving on the left, the only reason the US doesn't want to join the 21st century is that there are a lot of dumb people in the USA who claim how much they would hate to have to standardize with the rest of the world...after all they know how long an inch is, imagine having to learn about cm. And the celsius thermometer, forget it; even though it makes much more sense. What do these people do when they turn on the telly say in the UK and hear the weather forecast for the morning says the high will be 10 degrees; some of them start looking for their winter coats (don't laught, I've seen it happen)...

Unfortunately not in our life time will the US join the rest of the world in these unmportant matters; so imagine they won't be joining so in things that do matter such as global warming.

Unfortunate but true.

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MATHA531 (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Specialist Posts: 869 Join Date: 15 Oct 2004 Country:	30-05-2006, 19:56 Let me start out by saying I'm not a technologically blessed person but just an end user who has acquired some knowledge by participating in this forum. This business of the USA being "behind"; I brought up a while ago. Some have answered me something to the effect that while the USA participated in the decision to make gsm and the 900 frequency the prime mobile standards, they found that a lot of communications stuff was already on 900 and it would have been very expensive to change....nobody at the time dreamt of such things as everybody walking around with a mobile phone, international roaming and stuff like that. And the decision to use 800 as the auxilliary frequency (which is 850) for gsm carriers in the US was due to the fact that cingular already had licenses to operate on that frequency so that was that....it has become very nasty in terms of getting a hold of tri band phones that use 900/1800/1900. For a while T Mobile US carried such phones but now that 850 carriers exist in the USA and they roam on some of them, all their tri bands are the useless for European travel 850/1800/1900...I am most partial to Nokia phones, people tell me Moto phones suck so it is a problem for me to upgrade my phones. Now as far as other things, other than driving on the left, the only reason the US doesn't want to join the 21st century is that there are a lot of dumb people in the USA who claim how much they would hate to have to standardize with the rest of the world...after all they know how long an inch is, imagine having to learn about cm. And the celsius thermometer, forget it; even though it makes much more sense. What do these people do when they turn on the telly say in the UK and hear the weather forecast for the morning says the high will be 10 degrees; some of them start looking for their winter coats (don't laught, I've seen it happen)... Unfortunately not in our life time will the US join the rest of the world in these unmportant matters; so imagine they won't be joining so in things that do matter such as global warming. Unfortunate but true.