No not at all, you don't live in BFE. I don't know what the numbers are, but 3G covers a vast majority of the population, but a tiny majority of the land mass. The difference between 2G and 3G is like night and day. As soon as my HTC Touch hits 1xRTT (CDMA's edge), I know without checking. Tethering becomes painful. Syncing email becomes noticeably slow, and web browsing on the phone just gets worse. There's frankly no excuse for the iphone to have had edge in the first place, but if you've waited this long, wait a little bit longer.

Apple/AT&Cingular wouldn't want to roll out video calls because it's an application which just wouldn't work as soon as you hit edge/gprs. It wouldn't just be slow, it'd be unusable. (Or, in steve-speak: it works perfectly - if you're outside 3G, it seamlessly falls back to displaying the contact's icon)

Matthew