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Funny, when I read that, it indicates the fellow died from bee stings.
Hmm, yup there it is, right in the first paragraph: "Grahame Young died
from bee strings"

Mobile phones have not ever been, and will never be completely reliable.
Nor are landlines.  Nor are bees, actually.

While the situation is certainly unfortunately, what would have happened
if nobody had a mobile phone?  If the phone fails to operate as
expected, fall back on another course of action, don't stand there for
10 minutes playing with your mobile.

I'm on Rogers' GSM network with 3G/WCDMA service and it's a godsend, I
went from about 50% of calls making it through when I'm in my basement
to not having missed a single call (and yes, I can authoritatively say
that, since my calls route through a PBX first and get forwarded, so I
know each time a call gets sent to my mobile, even if the mobile fails
to notice)

Now if you had stuck to the facts, bees killing a man and W-CDMA rollout
not being especially fantastic, you might be bordering on being honest,
but calling W-CDMA a disgrace across the board is disingenuous at best.