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FCC map: Large areas not covered by mobile broadband
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Posted on 02/10/2012 4:50:50 PM PST by matt04
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Looking at the map, the amount of area they seem to be willing to spend money on, in say, western and northern Alaska is scary.
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posted on
02/10/2012 4:50:55 PM PST
by
matt04
To: matt04
Large areas are not covered by people either.
Nearly $70M of Porkulus here to bring broadband to cornfields, pastures, and cow barns
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posted on
02/10/2012 4:52:55 PM PST
by
bigbob
To: matt04
HORRORS! Give 'em one of these:
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posted on
02/10/2012 4:53:46 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Spoiler Alert! The secret to Terra Nova: THEY ARE ALL DEAD!!!)
To: matt04
Oh no! I cant use my FR app in the river bottom?
Horrors!
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posted on
02/10/2012 4:55:25 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: bigbob
It’s our constitutional right to have wireless broadband. er uh . . . wait maybe not. I’ll have to go check. /s
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posted on
02/10/2012 4:55:41 PM PST
by
BipolarBob
(When do the salmon return to Capistrano?)
To: matt04
Get the areas not covered filled in and the freeloaders will be demanding FREE “smart” phones. That’s gonna cost us.
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posted on
02/10/2012 4:56:23 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(FOX News! In the barrel for Barry!)
To: freedumb2003
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posted on
02/10/2012 4:56:55 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: matt04
You know what slays me?
People that think they have a right to GPS in the Himalayas!
Can any one read a map or calculate magnetic declination anymore?
If you cant you probably shouldn’t be out there to begin with.
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posted on
02/10/2012 5:00:34 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: matt04
"...millions of Americans still live, work, and travel in areas where advanced mobile networks have not been built out,And I'm one of them. Which is why I try and stress the importance of not relying on cell phones when tourists visit the backcountry here. My cell phone barely works in my office here.
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posted on
02/10/2012 5:04:25 PM PST
by
Inyo-Mono
(My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
To: matt04
By the time they get 3G to all those blackout spots (uninhabited mountainous areas, mostly), everyone else will be using some new satellite system, and cell towers will be extinct.
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posted on
02/10/2012 5:04:32 PM PST
by
Semper911
(When you want to rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll always have the support of Paul.)
To: matt04
How did the pioneers ever manage without broadband coverage?
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posted on
02/10/2012 5:07:26 PM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(My doctor told me to curtail my Walpoling activities.)
To: matt04
Some of my favorite places..
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posted on
02/10/2012 5:07:55 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: BipolarBob
Well technically, according to my buddy who runs an ISP, people think they have a constitutional right to PORN, and they demand broadband in order to get it!
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posted on
02/10/2012 5:12:47 PM PST
by
bigbob
To: mylife
I don’t have to worry about magnetic declination from true North where I live. It is zero.
Actually it is a little irritating to read a story about a hunter in Africa being mauled by a buffalo and them calling for assistance on a cell phone when I cannot get one which works here in Florida.
High speed internet. What is that?
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posted on
02/10/2012 5:14:59 PM PST
by
yarddog
To: freedumb2003
I got to admit that I throw a long wire over a tree at times and hook it up to a shortwave when I am in remote places just to see what I can receive, but I’m generally enamored of places like that so much that I am just looking at the stars or the fire.
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posted on
02/10/2012 5:16:09 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: matt04
Doesn’t this mean these are places they can’t so easily track you, either. I suspect a push for coverage has nothing to do with providing service to individuals.
To: yarddog
Well I still use topo maps and a compass
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posted on
02/10/2012 6:22:11 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: matt04
On the one hand, they use Agenda 21 to end private property and drive all non-ruling class peasants into inner-city housing projects, and on the other hand they want to cover the entire country with free wifi.
It seems like all they are really after is government cash.
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posted on
02/10/2012 6:48:20 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(FOREIGN AID: A transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries)
To: mylife
Why wouldn’t GPS work in the Himalayas?
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
I don’t know that it doesn’t. My points who is so anal retentive that they need that stuff in remote locations like that?
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posted on
02/10/2012 7:16:36 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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