What the heck is with the implication that offline is for Middle East, Africa etc? I'm in the UK, have usually lived and worked in urban locations, but I am yet

What the heck is with the implication that offline is for Middle East, Africa etc? I'm in the UK, have usually lived and worked in urban locations, but I am yet to live or work somewhere that hasn't had some degree of signal issue. Does the whole of SV and California have perfect signal? Like phone works only in a certain part of one room, or works but sensitive to movement, or works fine, but you'll have multiple outages between home and work. Leads to missed calls, texts, and plays havoc with apps that mostly assume perfect connection. My attempt to adopt Google Play music was over in a week or two. I wouldn't mind if I was in the wilds, I'd expect it, but that's in towns of 100k+ - 1m+. Crap signal and breaks isn't some rare edge case, it's common. Facebook (and everyone else) need barely works and often doesn't Thursdays and Fridays to go with 2G Tuesdays!