The US has an approach?

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Post #55,149 by pwhysall 10/6/02 3:06:05 PM Reply	The US has an approach? I thought it was just a bunch of carriers fighting turf wars over customers. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #55,152 by broomberg 10/6/02 3:17:51 PM Reply	Yes, they do The approach is based on bunch of carriers fighting turf wars over customers. And it seems to be working. It looks like crap during the initial phases, and people do get burned. Seems like Linux kernel development, ehh?
Post #55,156 by ben_tilly 10/6/02 3:39:16 PM Reply	Yes. It is called a "free market". And it tends to work well over a broad range of problems. It doesn't work for a few though. But still where the US deviates, it often is a [link\|http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1317912\|bad idea]. Incidentally like a lot of good US ideas, we shamelessly stole it from someone else. This one comes from some place that can't decide whether they should be called England, Britain, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom. (Which, despite being called united, seems to be divided between the English, and people who dislike the English...) Perhaps you have heard of it? :-P Cheers, Ben "Career politicians are inherently untrustworthy; if it spends its life buzzing around the outhouse, it\ufffds probably a fly." - [link\|http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/58/Mead.html\|Walter Mead]

Is the US aproach to cellular technology better? - (ben_tilly) - (19) - Oct. 6, 2002, 01:55:21 PM EDT

Damn you, Red Baron! - (CRConrad) - (2) - Oct. 6, 2002, 03:01:40 PM EDT

Call it "trained intuition" :-) -NT - (ben_tilly) - Oct. 6, 2002, 03:40:41 PM EDT

It's "Curse You", Red Baron! -NT - (gdaustin) - Oct. 6, 2002, 09:18:18 PM EDT

The US has an approach? - (pwhysall) - (2) - Oct. 6, 2002, 03:06:05 PM EDT

Yes, they do - (broomberg) - Oct. 6, 2002, 03:17:51 PM EDT

Yes. It is called a "free market". - (ben_tilly) - Oct. 6, 2002, 03:39:16 PM EDT

OT: Haven't seen his name for a while. - (Another Scott) - Oct. 6, 2002, 04:27:28 PM EDT

actuallyy it doesnt really matter as the future doesnt care - (boxley) - (1) - Oct. 6, 2002, 04:34:17 PM EDT

Yes it does matter - (Arkadiy) - Oct. 7, 2002, 10:40:25 AM EDT

European model is a victim of its own success - (warmachine) - Oct. 6, 2002, 06:52:47 PM EDT

He's too nice to GSM - (tonytib) - Oct. 6, 2002, 07:22:39 PM EDT

He missed the point about GSM. - (static) - Oct. 7, 2002, 06:43:30 AM EDT

I'm not convinced - (tuberculosis) - (6) - Oct. 7, 2002, 10:53:59 AM EDT

Not quite how I read it - (Arkadiy) - Oct. 7, 2002, 10:58:27 AM EDT

Ditto on weird SF cell phone service. - (Another Scott) - Oct. 7, 2002, 12:26:51 PM EDT

Yes, but it's likely Euro companies will lose leadership - (tonytib) - (3) - Oct. 7, 2002, 05:19:31 PM EDT

So who's had leadership for the last 5 years? - (tuberculosis) - (2) - Oct. 8, 2002, 06:02:48 AM EDT

Different experiences - (tonytib) - (1) - Oct. 8, 2002, 07:40:05 PM EDT

That says it rather well. - (static) - Oct. 9, 2002, 02:14:20 AM EDT

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