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Texas has a lot of uninhabited land, as does the USA and Africa. Is that being accounted for?

• vmarsy 12y ago
  Definitely not, it's just an estimation of what you would need to have a 4G coverage everywhere. Areas with a very low population density are not completely uninhabited, there's at least a few persons. But yeah in a big national park or in the middle of a big lake you probably don't need 4G as much
  • Tycho 12y ago
    would be interesting to see how people's behaviour would change if they had fast internet no matter where they went
    • ioddly 12y ago
      It would be considered exciting and dangerous to go somewhere without the internet. To some degree I suppose it's already true about phone service.
• notatoad 12y ago
  balloons are not stationary. To cover inhabited areas, you also have to cover the uninhabited areas or else you're only going to have service for as long as it takes the balloon to drift overhead.