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I don’t think that has anything to do with Nasa or Nokia?
by fsloth 6y ago
I don’t think that has anything to do with Nasa or Nokia?
- DataGata 6y agoIt has to do with that the expense of setting up a cellular network is so expensive that it hasn't be done in large parts of the earth, much less another celestial body.
- fsloth 6y agoThat's the business of network providers. To acquire the hardware, install them, and operate the service. That has nothing to do with Nasa or Nokia. I don't know why there are areas in US that lack service providers. Maybe someone here can explain it - I presume the reason has to do with something US specific about the business rather the overall cost since lots of low GDP areas globally can have good cellular coverage.
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoI get 4G in Russia, on a mountain in a crevice that has a glacier and 4 goats. Jokes aside, you'd be surprised how good network coverage is in some remote areas that seemingly have very little economic value.
- cestith 6y agoIt's not so much average earnings per person as average people per square mile. The network providers only want to invest where the return on that investment meets or exceeds some floor. Parts of the US are so sparsely populated the phone contracts for cellular would be huge to justify building the towers and backhauling the signals.
- tengbretson 6y agoSomewhere, a person with the expertise to deploy cellular networks is working on this rather than WY.
- fsloth 6y agoDeploying a cellular network is a simple exercise in capital expenditure and operating it as a service run of the mill business. It's not about technical expertise but of business. Why the business does not provide the service? I have no idea.
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoSo lets close all catering in casinos, bars and all of Vegas untill every child in Africa is fed. And all distilleries and breweries, since they waste perfectly good produce to brew alcohol, and just increase our healthcare costs And gold courses.
- bigbubba 6y agoContrary to what British newspapers might like you to believe, NASA is always capitalized.
- lopmotr 6y agoThere are so many things named with stupidly inconsistent capitalization that we should all stop caring and just capitalize the first letter like any other proper noun. I often have to google a product or company name to find out the correct capitalization, which is often hard to find because the stylized logo doesn't even use it.