@Alison I live in that area, and it's true that service is somewhat spotty. Of course, when the hurricane hit, you couldn't get service at all for a while. But even without that, I remember having to step outside to take a call on my cell phone.
Thank you, magneticnorth, for mentioning satellite internet. I was reluctant to mention the term myself, thinking that maybe I was ignoring some well known universal law and then be the subject of a barrage of dismissive posts and then ulimately booted form IE. Is there a problem with lag time, the time it takes a signal to make a round trip to and from a satellite a gazillon miles in the sky?
@magneticnorth, it must be annoying to need two mobile services, though. Whenever I go to Long Island, N.Y. (pre-Sandy, of course), I was always amazed at the areas that had such terrible cell phone reception, regardless of provider. This must be a concern for some organizations, depending on where their employees regularly travel to or work from. In some cases, perhaps they are stuck with specific providers or technologies because they are the only ones that work in a particular region of the country or world.
Michael, my experience is that there's no single provider that has the "best" coverage. There will always be areas wherein one carrier has great signal while another is practically dead. That's why I got myself two mobile hotspots: one 3G and one wimax
It just spreads my risk.
Your very to the point article brought up an always constant glitch in the wide world of connectivity. That being the general unreliablity of any connectivity scheme while on the go i.e. suddenly in the middle of Tampa Bay. Everything is just fine especially when you are on some closed course in some urban area but any detour might leave you untethered.
Now only if it were as reliable and as ubiquitous as GPS.
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