If so, some ask, why is the North so reluctant simply to plug in a telephone?
UHF-broadcast market is as poor as that, why are the stations so reluctant to give it up?
That may not be a problem at the moment, when companies and consumers are so reluctant to borrow.
"AOL is so reluctant to let go of the walled garden, " says Mehdi.
For years, foreigners have wondered why Americans, usually at the vanguard of technological adoption, were so reluctant to embrace texting.
Yet the latest blow for the French has been that the Americans seem so reluctant to use their own firepower.
What London does have is easier access to the venture capital firms which seem so reluctant to travel outside the capital.
In only 20 minutes the board, which had been so reluctant to approve the Residences at MGM Grand, signed off on it.
But both are so reluctant to overturn settled precedents that it would be surprising if they tore up one that has lasted 33 years.
With what appears to be plenty of evidence of the Suharto family amassing great wealth, why is Mr Habibie's government so reluctant to investigate?
Add it all up, and it is no wonder politicians are so reluctant to make a deficit deal that is staring them in the face.
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No wonder businesses are so reluctant to hire: When you don't know how steep the trail ahead of you is, it's usually better to travel light.
So how, wonders Mr Beinart, did a Jewish community famed for its liberalism come to create a leadership so reluctant to defend democracy in the Jewish state?
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Regarding the mistaken bailouts of the banks themselves, they offer a much better explanation for why banks today are so reluctant to lend to anyone but the best of credit risks.
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Why has the White House seemed to be so reluctant to speak out more forcefully about what Europe should be doing about Greece and with Portugal and Spain and Ireland waiting in the wings?
Why is the Administration so reluctant, so diffident?
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"The concern is that you overcompensate now and are so reluctant to talk to people that you lose your offensive advantage that you're not going out to take risks and contact people, " says Russell.
One question that many of you have asked me is why investors have become so reluctant to lend to the Italian and Spanish governments, but have apparently become keener to lend to the British government.
It sounds banal to write of an end of an era for Japanese politics, if only because that era, a dizzy mixture of brilliance and corruption, has been so reluctant to come to an end.
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Educated at Harvard both the college and the law school he had volunteered for the army in 1941 and ended the war on the staff of General Douglas MacArthur. (His wartime experience may explain why he, like other old soldiers, was always so reluctant to resort to force.) Moreover, his intellectual interests history and the law both drew him to Europe, and Britain in particular.
However, companies have so far been reluctant to do so - fearing for reputational loss and negative impact on stock price.
Anyone who has done so will be reluctant to switch away from a streaming plan.
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This may require the impairment of non-secured debt holders, something we have so far been reluctant to do.
Yet the government, which is already saddled with two ailing investment-trust firms, has so far been reluctant to step in.
So Romney is reluctant to release his other taxes due to tithing.
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Whereas Yahoo has some attitude, and obvious advantage of being THE Net brand name, Lycos so far seems reluctant to spread its message.
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Or it can launch a general strike, a radical step the leadership have so far been reluctant to authorise, or other forms of civil disobedience.
Revenue growth remains shaky, so CEOs are reluctant to increase costs.
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