US surpasses European 3G subscribers by 0.1% -- first!
By Thomas Ricker 
posted September 4th 2008 8:15AM
posted September 4th 2008 8:15AM
If comScore's data is to believed then the US has done the unthinkable and passed Western Europe (aka, old Europe right Donnie?) in terms of 3G adoption. 28.4% of American mobile cellphone subscribers north of that southern land mass with a similar sounding name now sport 3G devices compared to a measly 28.3% average for Europe's largest countries. That's an 80% surge in the US last year even though T-Mobile is still 3G-less. Man, it's like the 100-meter butterfly all over again, eh Europe?
Actually we were using your national press.
Plain and simple bullshit.
Err put western Europe against the US in and it beats the US hands down in number of medals :p
Nokia overpriced?!? Finance 101 would tell you that all things considered nothing is more expensive than the iPhone! Shame on Apple, which used to be the hero, the one who would support our prays for freedom, away from the tyran MSFT. Now it's clear: Money (short-term money, what's worse) is their unique motto.
Yeah this is one of those maybe more have 3G devices but how many of them actually use 3G. I mean we all know how we Americans, always trying to get the latest thing even if we have no idea what it does.
@Peterbaby
Yes to all of those questions about the US market...
1. Locally we have mesh Wi-fi networks provided locally by a municipality or one of the many fiber to the home solutions and fiber/coaxial hybrid that try to sell you the internet with free meshed hotspots for free in most of the urban area, and somewhat in suburban/bedroom communities.
2. We have three companies that offer fiber to the home and these run from $34.95 to $70 dollars for 70-100Mbps and up to 500Mbps. Since you have to lay new infrastructure that takes time,costs too much $$$$, and it is really slowed down with utility corridors that are already full of government, university, traffic ITS sytems, CCTV facial recognition in high crime/high pedestrian traffic areas*, L3 to Verizon business solutions, and decades of private companies laying lines in these same corridors before going bankrupt...the real problem is the lack of infrastructure maps of whats underground and having one of the nations largest ports adds everything from ammonia pipeline bursts, to liquefied natural gas that has killed utility workers. Most cable companies(the big three here anyway) have upgraded to 1Ghz transmission equipment, DOCSIS 3.0 specs, and Switched Digital Video(SDV) allowing an almost unlimited amount of SD/HD channels, including 80+ new HD channels and 50-70Mbps Internet service with higher speeds coming. Pretty good for the second largest cable node behind NYC and still one of the largest private fiber networks built by advance-newhouse/Time Warner, which provides the fiber from plant/distribution site to a node that handles 300-500 customers now each before changing over to coaxial.
*(over 477 cameras including ITS traffic red light cameras and the 360 degree 200ft tall poles that contain just the video camera on the top and can zoom in perfectly to anything within a 2 mile range)
english please? And screw all you Europeans, always have to result to insults. Your economy is just as bad as ours.
Rudolphe, one, that i'm pretty sure you're shouting down jaye talking up the american telecoms industry and two you're being as ignorant as the idiots your cussing...
Talk about 3G coverage in the world...
http://www.gsmworld.com/roaming/GSM_WorldPoster2008A.pdf
Maybe this only proves (again) that the Americans must be pretty stupid, they seem to pay for something they can't use ;-)
'3G Subscribers'
I don't even know what that means. We just buy handsets with 3G in them. We don't actually subscribe to it.
*Shrugs*
The most I ever did was have my simcard replaced to support the standard in the new handsets I bought, and this was years ago.
Interesting but not really relevant seeing as only 5 European were chosen. Also if you exclude france the other 4 countries together would have a higher penetration rate.
Guys, common, this is not a US against the Europe thing, after all we both know that both Europeans and North Americans are very ignorant towards each other. We just judge them based on what we hear, read, or see in the media, and as such our vision is trully negative.
Regarding the irony of the article, actually we could strip it down a lot, just by saying that Phelps actually defeated a Croatian whose country is still not a member of the only group of countries that can be considered an European US like Community(the EC).
I myself as a citizen of the World but mainly Europe, was quite happy that Phelps managed to achieve what he did.
And guys remember, we are still the greatest ok?
;-)
I'm sorry, but I have to call shenanigans.
From the article:
"The number of U.S. subscribers with 3G enabled devices has grown 80 percent to 64.2 million during..."
Ok, but how many are actually SUBSCRIBING to a 3G connection? The article, and this summary, just point out 3G ENABLED devices, not devices with actual 3G connections.
Of course if companies start selling phones with 3G, then the number of people with 3G devices will rise. Analyzing that is pointless. The only thing that matters is how many people are actually ADOPTING 3G and using a 3G connection. Most of these people quoted in the numbers are still on EDGE.
This is an analyst fudging the numbers so that more people will adopt 3G.
I haven't upgraded my iPhone, since testing my son's and finding that it really wasn't that much faster in real life. Somehow I doubt our networks are up to Europe's and Japan's given the slew of Europeans that have been in town recently, and complaining about the networks.
AT&T may have a different opinion, and camping next to one of their towers doesn't count. I used EVDO for a couple of years, and it was better, particularly with respect to latency. Alas most of the phones were not to my liking at the time.
Waiting for WiMax!
Septics in fixed data shocker. Quell supise mon amis.
Well the data and this engadget article are both misleading. We don't say "the USA" when talking about 5 states, why say "europe" when talking about 5 countries? Even Serbia, where the swimmer opposite Phelps in that picture (Cavic) is from has 3G available on Telekom Srbije. And in the Serbian half of Bosnia (Republika Srpska) they have 3G on TS also. I say the data or this article should be revised. When talking about 0.1% difference, the data should be a complete set, otherwise what the heck is 0.1%?
The study is obviously biased as are many other things in America.
The NBA, NFL, NHL, MLB champions are somehow "world champions".
Football is called soccer, even though American football doesn't involve a ball nor much use of a foot in displacing the "ball".
(Dont come back and say that Football should be called kick ball. Because unlike American football, football players use something called skill and brains to play the game whereas kicking the ball would seem like a dumb process. In American football players follow the dumb QB who follows exactly what the coach says, all the while there are ads playing for the viewer how exciting!!)
Candidates for elected office need to have a "story" (what??) instead of solid policies.
Apple and its excellent iPhone product will only extend the lead even further.
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see, i guess longer arm is better ... there are lots of advantages on tall people. And I m not saying no disadvantages...
To the joker ripping on foot ball. If it is such an easy game, why are there almost NO europeans playing in the NFL... and the few that do play as kickers?? Besides being too sally to hack it in the NFL, they don't have the skill.
If it is such a bad game, why did it spawn a relatively successful league in EU?? Probably because it rocks? Hmm...
Why are Americans so fat? Because we worked up a HUGE appetite bailing your sorry behind out of TWO world wars!
Ha.
I should notice: "Percent of Subscribers with 3G Devices" and I say, again, subscribers.
As a guy who lives in an European country (Portugal) with over 95% 3G coverage and over one active cell phone numbers per citizen (we're 10 million but there are 11-12 million active cell numbers), I must say these numbers were... nicely manipulated. Our mobile market is different: just a small percentage of users, in Europe, have long term subscriptions with their carriers. Most of us use pre-paid services and either discount or unlocked phones. Most subscribers I know are people that use a company phone, that usually is the cheapest phone in the market, as their second phone.
I actually know very few people that don't have at least one 3G phone... The ones I know that have crappy 2G phones are over 70 or less than 14.
Anyway, It's good to know that the US are catching up with the rest of the world in mobile communications.
European 3G coverage totally blows USA 3G coverage out of the water!
--First!
http://www.gsmworld.com/roaming/GSM_WorldPoster2008A.pdf (Warning: large pdf)
I might also point out that USA/Canada GSM subscription is still below western Europe by a whopping 7%, so when you factor this into the statistics, USA 3G subscription per capita falls massively behind 'old' Europe.
Way to fudge the numbers to make you look good America, but you fail again.
HAHAH!
Although US may have passed Europe in the amount of sold 3G phones... what's the use?
Crappy reception, bad service and overpriced... In Sweden you could get a 3G phone with good coverage, lots of services and nice prices for like 10 years ago (or atleast it feels like that).
Feels like 3G is getting old here, while you - american infidels =), are just happy you don't have to have extra long antennas anymore...