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By global standards, the United States has hilariously low density and has hilariously high incomes, which means it's significantly more expensive to maintain a
by murderfs 2y ago
By global standards, the United States has hilariously low density and has hilariously high incomes, which means it's significantly more expensive to maintain a network. You're comparing a network that doesn't have 5G coverage in towns 20 miles away from the center of London [1] to one that has coverage over a gigantic proportion of the area that actually contains people at any given time. [2]
1: https://www.nperf.com/en/map/GB/-/164526.Vodafone-Mobile/signal?ll=51.430512064768656&lg=-0.204620361328125&zoom=9 https://www.nperf.com/en/map/GB/-/164526.Vodafone-Mobile/sig...
2: https://www.nperf.com/en/map/US/-/85.T-Mobile-inc-Sprint/signal?ll=37.54411419454302&lg=-99.25048828125&zoom=5 https://www.nperf.com/en/map/US/-/85.T-Mobile-inc-Sprint/sig...
- jdietrich 2y agoIf you exclude legacy CDMA sites, the US and UK have basically the same number of cell sites per capita. https://opencellid.org/stats.php https://opencellid.org/stats.php