And Australia is about 5 years behind the US. Most of our residents don’t have digital TV or broadband, let alone wireless carriers. Don’t get me wrong, we have mobile phones (we’re not *that* backwards), but not much in terms of wireless access outside of wireless routers on personal networks. (I think it’s because our cities are very spread out).

Well you/we are also about one year behind Europe Indeed when I arrived in NYC last year I discovered that only “top-of-the-line” cell phones had bluetooth, that many clamshell phones had still the antenna sticking out and that the sound quality was actually quite bad. It was quite a shock at first. Now I got used to it, although I still don’t understanding every word said on the phone