On Sun, 05 Jun 2016 17:50:14 +0100, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 6/5/2016 12:23 PM, James Wilkinson wrote:
On Sun, 05 Jun 2016 17:21:07 +0100, Tony944 wrote:



Why the **** don't they all use the same cell network so everybody is
always
near a transmitter?

All companies do not use same Frequency and band width.

Why not?

Remember Beta vs VHS? 8 track vs cassette? Ford used positive ground
instead of negative? Edison vs. Tesla? What side of the car should the
steering wheel be?

But different networks are not different. They're just not usable by your phone.