What a land of contradictions - on the one hand you have world's best companies like Apple and Google and on the other, these awful, badly run, penny wise pound

What a land of contradictions - on the one hand you have world's best companies like Apple and Google and on the other, these awful, badly run, penny wise pound foolish crapfests like AT&T. I actually just got back from a month in the US, mostly in LA, staying around west hollywood. The phone coverage was just bullshit and I'm not exaggerating. I was constantly amazed how I'd be standing outside, on Sunset Blvd, with 1 bar of coverage or nothing at all - I'd have to be deep in a basement or in an obscure train tunnel to get that in Sydney. I'm amazed that anyone can use this tethering at all, I was lucky to be able to check my e-mail. Just one of those crazy things ..