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I’d like to see a map showing US cell coverage that offers minimum 20 mbps rates (current bar for ‘high speed’ internet). I expect the vast majority of rural lo
by ElectronCharge 2y ago
I’d like to see a map showing US cell coverage that offers minimum 20 mbps rates (current bar for ‘high speed’ internet). I expect the vast majority of rural locations aren’t covered. Other countries will be far worse on average.
Cell internet is also quite expensive.
Starlink offers 10x the minimum bandwidth.
Running fiber everywhere it needs to go for backhaul would be fabulously expensive, and involve major environmental impacts.
- cozzyd 2y agoSure, some cell networks suck. That's not an immutable law of nature though. There is plenty of bandwidth available for terrestrial cellular networks. And backhauls can be point to point microwave rather than fiber.