Reply by Marian_in_CA on 12/13/13 8:11am
Msg #495991
I don't even have an air card anymore...
My phone itself is a mobile hotspot (Samsung Galaxy Note) ... it does just about everything for me it seems.
My biggest issue still remains having an actual signal in some areas. I live so far out in the boonies that the signal can be unreliable at best in some areas. It's ridiculous considering that I actually live in a decent, albeit smallish size town full of military and engineering types. I mean, many of my neighbors either work for the NASA, the Air Force or for one of several companies working on spaceflight to Mars (Virgin Galactic/TSC) -- and we can't even get a decent cell phone signal.
YET... not too far north of us, in what is essentially a ghost town, bar stop for off-roaders (Randsburg, CA) with a full-time population of maybe 50 people.... there is a full 5-bar signal because a tower nearby at the top of a hill, which primarily serves people driving along highway 395.
Technology. Ugh.
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Reply by Marazz/AZ on 12/13/13 8:40am
Msg #495998
Re: I don
Sometimes companies have an easier time placing towers in smaller towns; you get into all sorts of land rights/easement/lease/access issues and larger government bureaucracy in more populated areas. You need a land owner who will agree to a tower on their site, neighbors who won't protest it, and a government who will approve it (and in larger areas can involve going through zoning and planning etc etc etc). And everyone wants a piece of the $$$ pie the cell phone companies are going to make off the deal.
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