> The US, which has plenty of rural areas with cell coverage, phased out 2G basically entirely over the past few years (only T-Mobile has a 2G network at all in

> The US, which has plenty of rural areas with cell coverage, phased out 2G basically entirely over the past few years (only T-Mobile has a 2G network at all in the US now, There's still big gaps. My parents live in the middle of nowhere. Their service isn't classified as 2G but the 5G service is so spotty and the signal is so weak it might as well be. The US has a documented history of producing data to avoid serving these areas, same thing with internet.