I am happy that AT&T feels the squeeze of making those promises they made. For those jeering the U.S. for being slow on expansion: 1. The United States is a fairly massive country and early on the main carriers' concern was spreading coverage, and then later adding more capacity when more subscribers signed up in their respective service areas. 2. Like the article states, local government has the say on who can build what in their city. The permits must be approved for the tower. Any lines going to the tower must also be approved. Compensations must also be addressed if the ideal property is on a citizens property (some of those DSLAMS ATT installed for their U-verse service had to be installed in people's backyards, one is in the corner of my backyard right now). Other countries' central government have almost absolute power. The carriers pay and get approval from the central government, they hand the necessary papers to the carriers and then the carriers build their tower where they need it. If the locals don't like it, too bad.