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Originally Posted by resistor
Any claims that "NextG" (and, in fact, the name itself) is better is purely marketing spin.
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Hey thanks Resistor for explaining it all - I knew I probably didn't have it quite right.
The phone company in question is much better at spin than they are at providing either good prices or good service and our regulators have had at them over some aspects of their marketing so what you say doesn't surprise me at all.
I guess for Amazon to negotiate the carrier contracts outside the US is probably a big hurdle just like I suspect local copyright laws and distribution deals etc make it hard to negotiate with publishers for ebooks outside the US. Its a bit like iTunes in Australia where you cannot get movies even though Apple actually advertise iPods with pictures of Pirates of the Carribean on the box - this is my husband's favourite movie(s) and being unable to get them from iTunes has really put him off the lovely iPod I got him for his birthday (luckily for me
)
And don't even get me started on the control that the local tv networks exert on TV shows. Its turned a lot of people to piracy just so they can get the content that they want to view. Its not available legally except if and when the networks choose to broadcast it (and they axed my favourite show 3 episodes into the new season - cannot publicly admit which show
) or if you shell out for DVDs and I'm pretty sure ripping them is against the rules too.