At 02:37 AM 1/17/2003, zampano wrote: > How come cell phones still are horribly >unreliable all over the U.S?? When I could use them in Italy, >Switzerland and Germany 8 years ago on mountain peaks, valleys, subway >stations, anywhere except tunnels??? Have you compared the sizes? Germany for example, has a helicopter/trauma center setup that can get people to a trauma center from anywhere in the country in fifteen minutes. This is great, but they have only about one-eighth the land mass per inhabitant (230/km^2 vs 27/km^2 ten or fifteen years ago) UK similar, they put 60,000,000 people in an area about the size of the State of Maine. Canada has only 3 inhabitants/km^2, but they're concentrated in a narrow band so the effective density is much higher (and certainly our own overall densities are greatly influenced by the low-population western states). Anyway, that's certainly not the whole answer, but it's definitely part of it. cheers, david
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