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Originally Posted by Mr. Goodbar
Whispernet is based on sprint's CDMA based 3g network, however it could have just as easily used GSM's version of 3G which would have then covered the bulk of the world.
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Actually, 3G is, in fact, a CDMA standard
(just being nitpicky)
But the standard used isn't the problem here. It's the financial / marketing side. Whispernet works because it's limited to a SINGLE carrier and a SINGLE content provider. That's what makes having free network access and paying just for the content, instead of the classical subscription or prepaid model, possible.
The moment you translate that to an environment with multiple countries and multiple carriers, things fall apart.