why mobile phones networks suck in the US

"While that might give a competitive advantage in the short term, it inhibits collaboration, limits product development, reduces consumer choice, and hindered China's competitiveness and growth, Padilla muttered."

Did he mean China or the US?

What a laugh

You have gotta be kidding me :-).

Lets see, USA the country that invented its own standard for 2G (CDMA) Vs rest of the world (GSM, but hey maybe 3 billion people are wrong).

Then promised to have one standard for 3G, but then decided not to (EV-DO Vs WCDMA for the rest of the world, but hey, who knows maybe 650 million people and counting are wrong).

And 4G ? Surely by now the US has learned that in a globalized world, global standards are the way to go (LTE) ? Verizon seems to have figured it out.... but Sprint ? Nope, Mobile WiMAX.....

Give us a break.

Population

The only problem they fail to realize is that China's population ... is friken 1/4 of the world. You'd think that they probably have enough competition IN CHINA then even using Europe AND US ....

Course, India does come with the other 1/4 of the world.