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Old Aug 2, 2010 | 8:27 am
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Originally Posted by ScottC
Not sure I understand this one - are you saying the FCC is behind the slow introduction of prepaid data in the US? I've never heard that before, nor have I heard them interfering in pricing of data. I suspect it is more because there really isn't that much competition between carriers, and they all seem to be content keeping data prices as high as possible.
FCC is not the problem. Maybe my use of "regulatory bodies" was not the right choice.

North America has been slow to implement many of the new technologies. Maybe it is just the economy of scale, population density and how profitable it will be.
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