wow...

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wow...

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dont u gotta be blowing up somewhere?

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GSFJUGHSFJNHFSBKSFKNBFSMKLNBFDMKLNMNDKLNMDKGDKGDNKNKNFDKBNDFBNDFNGKDFNKN HI LOL WHAT

HI FOUREST

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wow

CAPITALISM FTW

wow!!! (looks for low rating)

OMFG COMMIE

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no seriously

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i feel smarter now, i will tell this story @ partys and be the man!

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WHOAMG!! THIS YTMND SPEAKS TR00F!!!

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It's bullsh*t, in Europe they use satellite phones, which work all over Europe, but suck in crowded area's. Which is why Ireland can enjoy the Satellite phones , but the rest of Europe can't. Usually they just have Cell Towers and pay-as-you-go cards like Cingular. And, in Europe, EVERYTHINGS MORE EXPENSIVE F*CKWAD. Forget that detail? Euro's and pounds are worth 1/3 more and twice more than the US Dollar.

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^ Usual indicator that the economy is better.

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So if a euro is worth twice what a dollar is worth, wouldnt you pay half as much for the same value service? Just, yknow, using math.

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Deathacorn you're an idiot -.-

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Someone buy deathacorn a maths textbook and maybe, when he's ready, an illustrated big print economics pop-up play book.

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.002$ = .002₤

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Aww, that british pound symbol didn't come out right. Bummer.

bonus stars for learning something

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at least worth a 4

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Learning makes me feel smart, but the other children laugh at me. And touch my penis.

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best commercial ever

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5

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combo breaker?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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Combreaker breaker! 9!

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guess what chad i poop from there NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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not right now you dont.

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wow i learned somthing :D

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INTERESTING

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same goes for the internetz sorta

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I hear ya.

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INFORMATMND

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UR JUST AS BAD AS MIKEAL MOORE!11111111111111 COmUnIsTiZ

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RAWR!

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Rubilac the Economist

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more like RubileconomistEX

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I'll second that

My brother works for one of the companies. He will love this.

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Do you even know what infrastructure is?

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Was anyone else expecting foot doctor?

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*raises hand*

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Yeah....I was waiting for it the whole time.

i was lol

stupid canadian. Add this to afrojacks' 4.

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ouch.

excellent falcon176 homage.

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F*CK

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HEY F*CK

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HEY F*CK YOU

HEY F*CK YOU TOO

C-C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER

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lol

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rofl

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I always see the edited 30 second version instead. Strange.

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And thus, it has come full circle.

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lmao.

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qft

qft indeed

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Now I know. An knowing is half the battle.

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F*ck Capitalism!

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Awesome

Infotainmentmnd ftw.

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F*cking brilliant

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thanks for the insight.

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f*cking greedy-ass phone companies....

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whether this is true or not, you shouldn't be so quick to believe everything you read or hear about. This is 100 times more true on YTMND.

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Look outside your GODDAMN house, you'll see a buncha little towers sticking on top of the hills, yea there really only needs to be one there.

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Lol, cell phone people. BUT DID YOU SEE THE NEW RAZOR-TFQX?! It's got one of those cameras with no focus or optic zoom that takes 500 pixel images that you can almost tell are of naked chicks!

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informative

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I'll 5 it if you put a little moustache on him, and cross his eyes. yes....

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This is f'n great

True

The ironic part about it is you probably have an expensive cell phone payment too, it is the American way.

birds don't build nests in fake cell phone towers that resemble trees

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Which is weird because they build nests in real cell phone towers that resemble cell phone towers.

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I always thought they built nests in cell phone towers the resemble real trees.

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omg oligopoly owned

You had me at "they each ended up adding their own infrastructure".

F*CK YOU, I COME HERE FOR MINDLESS LAUGHS, AND YOU EDUCATE ME WITH USABLE KNOWLEDGE I COULD USE TO TEACH MY HISTORY STUDENTS? F*CK YOU MAN. TAKE YOUR DAMN FIVE

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pwnd with logic. lololol.

Cry more you liberal piece of sh*t.

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lol, conservatives

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Wait, LazyNG. Since when did this have to do about politics? Why do you hate people who have a different political opinion than you? Are you honestly that narrow minded?

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Come on, Nate, you know just as well as anyone that only Castro-worshipping lefties want to save money on cell phone coverage. I'd be willing to pay 3 times as much for service just to show loyalty to the USA.

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I love how anyone that can identity a problem in how corporations poorly run things is a liberal. Does that mean that half of America is retarded? (Don't answer that)

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guess what 1

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guess what 5

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I concur

As do I.

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This isn't good

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A little dry, but hey- good message. 5'd

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INFORMATIVE

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this type of approach could fad itself if we are not careful, we must be cautious.

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U R OK

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OMG Secret Capitalist Cell Towers! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRQYan_-CTQ

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LULZ

Epic.

Also, Footdoctor.

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Now do one about health care costs using Wilford Brimley.

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Say it with me. Di-uh-bee-tus. Diabetes.

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Di-uh-bee-tees...

nice, yet sad.

good work

LOL!

It's called a free market you sh*tface. Who are you to tell someone to share infrastructure that they built?

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F*ck the free market, f*ck capitalism, f*ck you. Go suck some corporate c*ck.

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capitalism > Marxist idealism

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anarchy > capitalist idealism > Marxist idealism

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structure > anarchy

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I love how "free market capitalists" always forget the part about how the consumer actually drives the market place. So you won't share your towers so I don't have to pay five times what your sh*ttier service is worth? Fine. I'll get a Asian market-based satellite phone while you bitch about how I don't buy American. There's yr free market, bitch.

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Communism killed 100 million people..........Best type of government ever.

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That was technically fascism under a light veneer of communism but ok

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Didn't say I wanted communism. Didn't say what I wanted, in fact. Go back to Russia/Cuba/Africa/Iran/Toledo/_____, hippy!

The "free market" doesn't always come up with the most efficient or high quality technology. Heaven forbid someone point that out.

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Learn something. Read Corporate Law. We are not even close to a free market. Managed market more like it.

seriously...

f*ck europe

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f*ck free market capitalism in the united states as well, actually

also f*ck the administration, the corporations that own it, congress, the corporations that own that, the military (and the corporations that sell overpriced sh*t to it), and the french (for general douchebaggery)

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f*ck

f*ck the moon f*ck squirrels f*ck me and f*ck you

Omega's comment was better when I mis-read it as "F*ck the moon squirrels"

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f*ck nationalistic *ssh*les, you people ARE the problem

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educatmnd

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LMAO. NO SITE has EVER made me laugh THAT HARD! I think I woke up everybody on this floor! Absolutely hysterical; this is complete hall of fame material. If I could vote 10, 5 for being an awesome YTMND and 5 for me agreeing with you politically, I would. FREE MARKET CAPITALISM WILL DESTROY US ALL!

but, if you could vote 10, you would probably vote 10 on all the sites you actually voted 5 on, and vote 5 on all the sites you actually voted 2-3 on

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Don't corner me with your logic, capitalist pig!

5 for making me laugh, the liberal bullsh*t could take a backseat though

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5'd for edutaining me

Actually, that isn't really true. Many of the services *do* share the same towers -- they try to justify their prices with "value add" services. The number of cell phone towers in US is actually fairly reasonable given population density and more importantly the size of the nation. Comparing tower coverage to the tiny countries of Europe, you can't really come up with a fair coorelation.

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WRONG!!!!!

Then try comparing with China. I was in the god damn Gobi desert and those f*ckers still had signal. And they pay a fraction of what an American pays for service that cuts in NYC, the most densely populated place in the US.

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It is quite true that many cellular towers are shared by various providers. Hence why you see different antenna types (one for Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, etc). Also, when it comes to there being cell phone that cuts off in NYC, you answered your own question. It is very dense and therefore the signal cannot go as far. If a provider can stick a cell phone tower that is directional (Lets say ~180 degrees) and it is on a mountain or some other place, it can cover a large and flat area such as the Gobi.

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I also must add that I was looking at Vodaphone's pricing over in the UK. 500 minutes costs £30 which is about $59.50 in US Dollars. I could easily get 450 minutes from Sprint for $40/mo, or if I went the SERO route, then I could get 500 minutes for $30/mo. or 1,250 minutes for $50/mo. That also includes unlimited data usage, picture messaging and video messaging. Also, in China, it is probably cheap due to the average income not being on level as to what it is here in the states.

I was being sarcastic about NYC. Let's discuss Binghamton, or North Adams, MA or other, less dense towns where signal cuts out. Also, the Asian phones were satellite based, not tower based, hence their coverage. As for China, despite the low wage earners you mention, there are more middle class Chinese than there are middle class Americans. Millions more. And their buying power far exceeds that of Americans.

Binghamton is a very hilly area. If you've ever been there, the towers are located on hills with saddle inclines. The valley as a whole has rolling terrain so even when placed on the mountainside, the towers still don't have line of sight to some places and hence, bad reception in those areas. Though it is a good example of the need for shared towers. Also note that the University has repeaters for certain providers.

Did someone call me?

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Wow. Perfectly. Seemless. On an unrelated note, where the hell are you?

5'd for truth

Of course, the great irony of this is just prior to the advent of cell phone technology, America did have a singular, near-monopoly of land-lines: AT&T. After the destruction of AT&T the market was infected by a bunch of worthless, regional-based companies (start ups and Baby Bells) who would fight each other tooth and nail for their small portion of the market, leaving us in our current disaster. Our high-speed internet service suffers from the same dilemma but for a variety of additional reasons.

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lol, aol

So, the hippies caused all this by breaking up the big, nasty phone company? Irony!

I’m not a big fan of monopolies – be they of any industry – but the truth of the matter is such that when you whine for a government-operated monopoly of cellular phone service (or at least the physical hardware associated with them), you’d be going back to (essentially) AT&T prior to its destruction: a government sanctioned monopoly of a vital service. Just cracks me up.

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You already get that with power companies in most places, and it seems to work fairly well.

I guess the only thing better would be 10 friends on NEDM.

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I guess the only thing better would be 10 friends on any YOU CAN EVEN PRINT IT OUT IF YOU WANT TO

I guess the only thing better would be 10 friends on any F00TD0CT0R.

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I guess the only thing better would be...

10 stars

lecturetmnd?

Wonderful!

WHAT ABOUT CANADA?

USA! USA! USA!

I honestly was expecting footdoctor. You blew my socks off.

O_O -_- O_O -_- O_O XD XD XD XD XD

Informative, but boring.... until "May I suck your dick Chad?" Then, INSTANT 5!!!!

THE MORE YOU KNOW *dadanah*

lol

Just what does cellphone calls cost in USA? Here in Sweden its like (converted to dollars) 10 cents per minute, and with some operators its free per minute to call to another person with the same operator (though you have to pay some start up fee for every call i think)

Free-market capitalism is not the same thing as corporatism. Capitalism is the greatest ally to the common man, whereas corporatism is what is absolutely evil. The competition in the market is a good thing. Eventually, the price for service will drop as each network competes over the other as opposed to using a shared network. If it doesn't, that is not the system of capitalism at work. That is evidence of corporatism and is the makings of a cartel, which is illegal. Vote for Ron Paul, bitches.

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F*ck Ron Paul, Vote for Dennis Kucinich!!!

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Kucinich? Isn't he the nutball who actually wrote a bill to ban "chemtrails" and orbiting mind-control lasers? Tinfoil-hat-wearing loony.

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To hell with both of 'em, vote for Vermin Supreme!

LoL internet Libertarians.

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"Kucinich? Isn't he the nutball who actually wrote a bill to ban "chemtrails" and orbiting mind-control lasers? Tinfoil-hat-wearing loony." <--where did you get /that/ info?

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Vote for Dio

SO SICK of Ron Paul's little internet fanclub

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Dennis Kucinich FTW!

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intriguing. invigorating.

PWND!

nice! didnt kno that

Europe is an industrialised nation

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Why can't I gett all my information this way?

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commie

One cell phone tower will provide complete coverage to your average European country, that's why.

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His sticks his cell phone in his vagina and waits until Chad texts him, so he can get his, satisfaction.

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That was cute. However, as usual: no sources = 1 star.

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General knowledge needs a source? You say that 5 x 3 is 15? PREPOSTEROUS! WHERE ARE YOUR SOURCES?!

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five for giving me another reason not to buy a cell phone.

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LOL HES NOT SO DUMB

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Alright, fine, but do they have better service than I do?

Well, America is screwed in a ton of areas. Someday, our young democracy will ask France and Great Britain why its cell towers and health care system is different from all the other countries.

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lol, highest cancer survival rates (that's the US I'm talking about)

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Win.

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I'll drink to that.

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I will five of course, but I must say, all the knee-jerk anti-capitalists here would be screaming MONOPOLY if there was actually one cell tower where we now have 3 or 4 or 5 hojillion. If I have to choose between publicly-owned or -regulated infrastructure (it works so well with Amtrak!), a private monopoly, or the current system, I'll take the current system. I'm pretty satisfied with T-Mobile, but they started out in Europe so I don't know....

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Yea, and to anybody that complains about US Mobile Phone rates...I invite to check out Bell, Telus, or Rogers. The "Big Three" Canadian providers. Thank yourself lucky that five-times the inffrastructure costs what it does.

Ever take a train in Europe? Amtrack's downfall is as much a result of the US's highway systems, oil lobbies, and trucking and auto industries (see Los Angeles: the city built by the Ford company) as much as it is gov't bureaucracy. That said, I'll give you FedEx over the PostOffice, but that's hardly a publicly owned project anymore.

I WILL KILL YOU F*GGOT KASSIUS GET IN DA CHOPPA

K I saw your other sites I changed my vote, you can live for now

omg smart stuff on ytmnd? SACRILEGE'D!

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Awesome

Informative and amusing; that's what I call raising the bar!

And as a result of these cell phone cartel's in other countries, they also own your soul and rape your commie asses in taxes

Incredibly informative.

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Interesting and educational!

Its not that much cheaper in Europe, trust me.

Scary.

wow, you tell it like it f*cking is dude..O_O

And then every time someone puts up a tower where it'll actually be useful some jerk files a lawsute and the tower is removed. So not only dose the us have 5 times more towers than is needed they are all clustered away from anyone who would actually use them to avoid lawsutes.

Interesting...

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death to the imperialists.

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The consumer always pays for it, by nature. Of course each company wants the lion's share of everything did you just fail 10th grade economics? Maybe we could just have 1 company and they could set the price to whatever they want. And one political party too... As for shared infrastructure it isn't possible here because as the site said, it came from all the companies wanting to dominate the market which resulted in different techs used to make different networks. 2 for intellectual stimulating-tmnd

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5 for the ending

It's not funny because it's true :|

great incite into the cell phone problem

I know you hate this site, so I'm 5'ing it.

Learning is half the battle.

Canada's sucks harder. We pay three times what you guys do for wireless data.

haha, dangly parts

too much info, but now i hate all of the phones companies

actually competition lowers prices and makes companies compete to provide better service... you fail :)

the reason there are 5 cell phone companies is the same reason there are different political parties: to create the illusion of choice. but its all the same crap

BORINGTMND

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LOL you did your Homework! FIVE!

Socialist = Retard

Guess what, Chad? In this commercial I am going to try to make it look like my service is good, however, you are much much smarter than me and will end up making your service look better; even when all five cell phone service providers completely suck. This stems from back when the technology was first introduced and the existing phone companies could not come to an agreement for building and using a shared infrastructure since each company wanted the line share of the profits.

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So, in the end, they each ended up adding their own infrastructure, each one of which is expensive to maintain. As a result, America has five times as many cell phone towers as they need and the consumer is paying for it. As a result, cell phone service costs five times what it should. In Europe and every other industrialized nation but America, there does exist a shared infrastructure, and as a result, service is very cheap.

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It's "lion's share"

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That too.

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A.) Sources or you're a f*cking liar. B.) ASSuming it is true, if the government allowed NATURAL monopolies to occur, it wouldn't be a problem.

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interesting. I think i will research this issue further.

if its not true then its even funnier

HAHA AWESOME

In capitalist America, products pwn you!

Someone should use this in a real commercial.

The cellphone is the ultimate testing ground for a non-neutral internet. Cellphones work and render Web pages (and who decided it was a bright idea to put Web pages on a cellphone anyway? sigh) so differently, and the contracts so sickeningly restrictive and pro-service-provider, that there is effectively no competition in the US, allowing the providers to eschew standards and bandwidth improvements for stagnating networks, fee raises, and even tougher contracts. In short, I'll stick with pay phones.

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Obsessed much?

educational

ASS ASSS!!! PISS PISS!! ASS, PISS, PISS!! PISS IN THE ASS!! PISS COMING OUT FROM MY ASS! PISS OUT MY ASS!!!

I think there's more than 5, because you got to remember the little providers like Cricket and Boost.

why do you hate this site so much?

meh

moonman is educated in cellular phone jargon

Blow up all cell phones or ted kaczynski and I will do it for you