Originally Posted by
tentseller
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.
What new technologies is the US missing? WiMax is in many major metro areas, LTE is being deployed, HSDPA+ is in several cities, US was first with the iPhone and Android etc... In many ways, the US is way, way ahead of the rest of the world.
I suspect it is more because the operators are in cahoots with each other than anything else.