I do understand the plan for the telco to provide the solution, but I think they would find comp'ing a phone upgrade to be a superior approach, allowing the user to have an overall better experience (and generate more usage charges) nearly everywhere, not just around their NE. And I don't see hundreds/thousands of NEs being deployed in an attempt to fill in numerous gaps in the coverage of of a dying network. 3G will disappear in the presence of such a vast 4G rollout, and I have to believe their 4G network will offer superior coverage as I have experienced. In fact, I have heard directly that the 4G network in India is considered standard fare, and works great.