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There will never be universal coverage. Even in the largest cities there are dead zones. A car rental business that assumes 100% Internet access availability d
by supertrope 4y ago
There will never be universal coverage. Even in the largest cities there are dead zones.
A car rental business that assumes 100% Internet access availability discovered the problem of customers parking the cars in parking garages (signal dead zones). They did not have an offline activation mode and had to tow the car. When any given customer triggered too many tows, they fired the customer.
The PSTN is not going anywhere. You can choose to cut yourself off from it by refusing to take calls unless it's via an app.
- smallerfish 4y ago> There will never be universal coverage. Even in the largest cities there are dead zones. Bold claims. You're willing to bet this is still the case in 20 years?
- mcguire 4y agoIn my more cynical moods, I might be willing to bet there will be massive dead zones outside of cities.
- nerdbert 4y agoI expect we will see a low-frequency supplemental band carved out to ensure low-bandwidth connectivity in cellars and carparks before too long. You won't be streaming movies over it, but they'll be able to talk to that car.
- 310260 4y agoWith all the incumbent users lower than 600 MHz, I don't know how realistic that is. They've already been pushed out of 600/700/800 MHz. Those pushed out won't want to invest in another move.