-> Must be nice.  I imagine you have a single digital wireless standard (GSM) too?
->  Here in the U.S. millions (or perhaps billions) of dollars are being wasted
-> building overlapping, incompatible networks.

 Not necessarily. goverment Regualted Standards are Rarely Better. The
Competition of the War though typicaly is GOOD for the Customer. Look
at the Piched Battle between the Beta and VHS tape standard/ We the
Customer came away Far better off. And so we will in the Cell Phone
Wars.
"May the Better Man Win" is always better then a Buerocrats Choice of
what "they Think we need".
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