I don't think so. Take the following quote: "If the FCC and legislators did their damned jobs, we'd have an open market in the US and not be locked into this criminal mess."

The FCC gave the US a far more open market than the Europeans have. You can not only choose different phones with different features, you can choose different carrier technologies. If you think CDMA is a better technology than GSM, you can choose to go that way. You can choose 2, 2.5, 3, or 4G data networks depending on your phone, your location, and your carrier.

The FCC deliberately chose to allow this openness. But this openness has a price and that price is lack of interoperability.

Hopefully there will eventually be a voice equivalent of the Qualcomm Gobi chip (which supports EV-DO/EV-DO Rev. A 800MHz, 1900 MHz, HSDPA/HSUPA 800MHz, 850MHz, 900MHz, 1900MHz, 2100MHz, GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850MHz, 900MHz,1800MHz, 1900MHz all on one chip).