Schrodinger’s internet. T-Mobile service is
available to customers at certain addresses, but
the carrier doesn’t provide coverage maps.
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to more Americans. We could demand that our
states drop their bans on municipal broadband.
Or we could demand that the Federal
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competitive providers, as is true in Canada and
the UK, as Canadian ISP rep (and ex-PCMagger)
Bryson Masse pointed out on Twitter.
Here are a few more mobile musings from recent
weeks:
Mobile eats Gamestop. The nihilist chaos in
the stock markets is happening in part because of
the stock-trading app Robinhood, and the word
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and extremely simple to sign up for, so super-
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experience matters.
Verizon beats 3Gbps, doesn’t beat 800
feet. I took the Galaxy S21 Ultra to my local
Verizon UWB site and found the highest mobile
5G speeds ever. But it’s still having trouble with
range and wall penetration.
Sony announces a super-expensive phone
with a real purpose. The point of the $2,
Sony Xperia Pro is to be a monitor and 5G upload
device for pro cameras. This is an actual real 5G
use case! I’m still not clear on why it costs so
much, except that you’re probably buying it with
your boss’s money.
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