[Ramcat]

"Booz Allen Hamilton is a top consulting firm, with an excellent reputation"

I'm sure they are.
What the headline suggests is that the US is not a leader in IT. This is far from fact.
What I'm saying is that IT is a very broad field and the article is basing their ranking on VOIP which is not the end all be all of technology.

[crushelits]

On a global basis, the survey — released last week — found that more businesses are measuring the benefits of technology instead of its costs on the bottom-line. It also found that instead of touting their ability to provide access to the Internet, companies are using the speed and reliability as benchmarks of success.

The study by U.S. consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, uses its own "Sophistication Index" to determine how eagerly, and capably, countries have embraced information technology, including wireless access and Internet access.

Sweden and in general most European countries have a more adavnced wireless technology than that of the US.
They have been using GSM  (Global System for Mobile Communications.
GSM is the name of a land mobile pan-European digital cellular radiocommunications system - A standard for digital cellular communications (in the process of being) adopted by over 60 countries. The GSM standard is currently used in the 900 MHz and 1800 MHz bands. I used to live in Europe and traveled to Asia a few times with my Motorola Triport (tri-band) wireless telephone and was able to make calls from Hong Kong to the US and any European country, actually to any country in the world. I treveled w/ this phone to the US and was not able to use it.