I found the article interesting enough to post if only because I used to work for a company (RootMetrics; since bought by $SOMEONE) that had people driving arou

I found the article interesting enough to post if only because I used to work for a company (RootMetrics; since bought by $SOMEONE) that had people driving around and going to airports, lugging a big case with a half dozen phones recording signal strength. There are other options as well (OpenSignal, or summat?). I'm not saying the FCC needed to go give RootMetrics, et. al., ongoing money. But I would think that instead of driving around in FCC cars they would have, you know, first asked "anybody else already do this? Think they'd sell us some of those data?" OTOH, that comes with a very large assumption of no cronyism nor glad-handing the industry.