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With some insider knowledge, I can definitely say that their “coverage” maps, at least in the western US, are complete and utter bullshit. They don’t actually m
by darksaints 3y ago
With some insider knowledge, I can definitely say that their “coverage” maps, at least in the western US, are complete and utter bullshit. They don’t actually measure coverage for those maps, they just use signal propagation models like longley-rice, with wildly optimistic parameters and extremely low resolution terrain data and almost no built environment data. Now there are people shitting their pants due to a drive-test requirement (literally driving around and measuring signal strength) of a rural data speed commitment that came from the sprint merger. They’ve been telling people for years that there is coverage where there is literally nothing.
- criddell 3y agoComcast was caught lying about their coverage: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/comcast-gave-false-map-data-to-fcc-and-didnt-admit-it-until-ars-got-involved/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/comcast-gave-fal... I wonder if there are similar FCC requirements for cellular companies?
- xp84 3y agoProbably, but I suspect like all captured regulators, they'd impose a penalty of a sternly-worded letter and a wag of the finger, and a "firm request" that they stop lying no later than 2033.