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Ummm, did you even look at the coverage map I linked to? For the sake of completeness, here are the other two national networks: http://www.sonera.fi/etsi+apua

by the_imp 12y ago

Ummm, did you even look at the coverage map I linked to? For the sake of completeness, here are the other two national networks: http://www.sonera.fi/etsi+apua+ja+tukea/verkkokartat/peittoaluekartta/ http://www.sonera.fi/etsi+apua+ja+tukea/verkkokartat/peittoa... http://kuuluvuus.dna.fi/Peittokartta/ http://kuuluvuus.dna.fi/Peittokartta/ My point here is that each of the three has nearly complete coverage of the whole of Finland. Sure, faster data than EDGE isn't available everywhere, but there's still service. And given that we're offering to these service providers only up to 5.5 million theoretical customers in total, they still manage to make a profit at the rates they charge. And somehow the situation in the US is so radically different that even with your economies of scale customers are charged perhaps triple compared to here? I'd say explaining how it works out that way calls for extraordinary evidence, and I've yet to come across such evidence.

Aloha 12y ago
I did. On both of those maps LTE coverage covers but a fraction of the country, Verizon has rolled out LTE to about 90% of its network footprint (http://media.idownloadblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Verizon-4G-LTE-coverage-20130520.png http://media.idownloadblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Ve...) and they are still in the midst of an active deployment - the sheer cost of this deployement is staggering - the figures I know, for the Samsung LTE hardware - just the hardware alone for a mid sized market, just 700 or so sites costs around 70 million dollars - thats ahead of installation/construction costs - which I'm estimating at somewhere between 100-150k a pop (assuming no structural mods are needed, and there are no construction charges to bring in new fiber backhaul) - figure the US has around 200,000 cell sites - I cant find out how many finland has - but just on the size 104k sq miles (about the size of colorado) I'd estimate no more than 2000 sites - probably less.

by the_imp 12y ago

Aloha 12y ago

I did. On both of those maps LTE coverage covers but a fraction of the country, Verizon has rolled out LTE to about 90% of its network footprint (http://media.idownloadblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Verizon-4G-LTE-coverage-20130520.png http://media.idownloadblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Ve...) and they are still in the midst of an active deployment - the sheer cost of this deployement is staggering - the figures I know, for the Samsung LTE hardware - just the hardware alone for a mid sized market, just 700 or so sites costs around 70 million dollars - thats ahead of installation/construction costs - which I'm estimating at somewhere between 100-150k a pop (assuming no structural mods are needed, and there are no construction charges to bring in new fiber backhaul) - figure the US has around 200,000 cell sites - I cant find out how many finland has - but just on the size 104k sq miles (about the size of colorado) I'd estimate no more than 2000 sites - probably less.