[Nexus 4 Original Android Development] albundy2010:
That's just one site. With old numbers. My best friends ex wife was from over the pond and she moved over to NY. Her brother came to visit many times for a month at a time. Some of my closest friends traveled to many places via the armed forces. The site was simply used to show the numbers.

Back in my IRC days I would be up at latw night and all the people across the pond would be online and we would interact heavily. From some idiots scanning entire ranges of ip's to helping people put together custom PCs.

This is not some hey let's just look at some website. The site was used to just pull some numbers instead of searching all over the previous cell phone plans for all the country's.

It's nothing new. The US market has long been a laughing stock. From back to flip phones / windows mobile and BB. And later the iPhone. This is not some new crazy idea to compare what service you get and how much you pay for it

Our system was and still is a joke. Some plans are actuality good and some are crap. Same for networks. But the industry as a whole is a disgrace period. People even had to make take a class action case against Verizon because they were in a direct violation of a spectrum deal.

I have not been across personally. But I know enough people who have in real life and countless others with my online dealings. With most of them being IT guys running dump boxes in private keyed IRC chans. Not your typical know nothing.

This entire premise of oh you were not there first hand so you don't know is frankly stupid. You all should know better than that

It's 2013 and it's still more common than not for a smartphone to be carrier locked. Either by software or hardware differences. And in the case of att they actually purposely get the oems to disable modem blocks for t mobile bands on some devices. Not that long ago it went to up the court system ( maybe even the supreme but I can't recall) about whether unlocking YOUR cellphone or labels was legal. Not even a subsidized phone either. Even if you brought it outright.

This is the the type of nonsense that goes on here.

It's kind of funny how folks will take somebody's word with a first hand experience in another country/ region. But yet at the same exact time ignore something someone who lives in the states his entire life has to say about it's market. Somebody that has had Verizon / att / t mobile / sprint Nextel and boost mobile. Somebody that closely follows the modems in these devices and what type of networks these operators actuality use.

But would I know about the cost / service and the entire mobile market space. Somebody else said it's great

The US market was crap and still has a long ways to go. It is getting better. Partly because of some of things t mobile has been up to. And the fact the hardware is finally here that allows on single SKU of a iPhone to run all the networks. And prior to that the gs3. That was the first mainstream android phone to put out carriers in their places and not let them screw the phone and customize / ruin the hw for their liking

Again what do I know. Murica is the best! I should be grateful for getting screwed all these years.