U.S. carriers face much bigger challenges building out wireless networks...
U.S. carriers face much bigger challenges building out wireless networks compared to many of their international counterparts, said a report by Mobile Future and Analysys Mason. “The comparatively large size of the population of the United States (over 300 million)…
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and its extensive land area (over 3.5 million square miles) pose significant challenges to the deployment of network infrastructure for mobile services across the country,” the report said (http://xrl.us/bm87eo). “However, in spite of the high investment costs required to cover the large areas of low population density, the United States has been consistently ahead of France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK in terms of population coverage by mobile networks, since approximately 2008.” The most-sparsely-distributed 1 percent of the U.S. population lies within 1.88 million square miles of the nation’s land mass, an area “more than twice the size of France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom,” the report said. “Despite the unique challenges to deploying wireless broadband to the most rural areas of our country, the United States is consistently a leader in deploying mobile coverage to a population spread over millions of miles,” said Mobile Future Chairman Jonathan Spalter. “The expanded U.S. mobile network coverage is a testament to massive network provider investment and the intense competition that fosters coverage from multiple network providers."