(March 17, 2021 at 10:11 am)polymath257 Wrote: I took a trip to Turkey in 1999 to see the eclipse. At the time, very few people in the US had cell phones, but they were very common in Turkey.
It seems that the US is often the last to adopt new technologies.
I wonder why?
Size.
Turkey is 300k sq miles.
US is 3.8m sq miles.
Think it might take just a few more cell towers to get 100 percent coverage in the US?
Most people don' t want a service that works in
" select areas only".