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As Europe has demonstrated that it is possible, I would think the US would want to offer that to people who desired it, if it means mo' money for them. So I'm sure the problem has more to do with hardware at the provider end that they do not want to invest in, or bandwidth issues they do not want to address (also a provider hardware issue).
Most importantly, when providers believe the big money is with streaming media anyway, maybe they've just passed on long messages as not being profitable enough for them to allocate resources to.
On the other hand, there have been some demonstrated differences between the American and European markets' use of cellphones, so maybe the US isn't looking that closely at what Europe is doing, or they don't believe there are enough people in the US who want longer messages to make it worth their while. After all, if no one's asking for it...
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