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>Largely beautiful as this country is, as you get into more rural areas, there's a high chance you won't have cell phone coverage there - I'll leave it as an ex
by nehal3m 3y ago
>Largely beautiful as this country is, as you get into more rural areas, there's a high chance you won't have cell phone coverage there - I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to choose if that's a feature or a bug.
>We'd already called and sent some WhatsApp messages, so we knew the phone wasn't reachable.
How did they do that without coverage?
- speedgoose 3y agoYou call from an area with coverage. Sometimes it’s enough to walk a little bit to be on the other side of a hill for example.
- nehal3m 3y agoBut if that's the case then the test is invalid: The point is to determine whether the lost phone is in coverage range. If you can get in range by moving around a bit then the lost phone might also be in such a place.
- Liquid_Fire 3y agoThe purpose of calling is probably to hear it ring, rather than to guess where it is based on the lack of signal.
- itpcc 3y agoMaybe with their place's Wi-Fi?
- mgarciaisaia 3y agoThe place had Wi-Fi, but the phone was just enough apart from the router to not reach it. The calls were WhatsApp Calls because we knew there was no cell service to make a standard call (don't know if the phone has VoLTE).
- nehal3m 3y agoSo awesome that the authors of linked articles hang out here. Thanks for clearing it up!