Mobile broadband

[Jonathan Stowe]

2008/12/19 Simon Cozens <simon at simon-cozens.org>:
> Sam Smith wrote:
>> Or use a different one so you have different
>> coverage chances; depending on how far into the middle of
>> nowhere you'll be.
>
> Another question: Bloody hell, people, what have your mobile phone
> providers been doing for past five years? I'm used to getting 3G
> coverage on top of mountains, on the underground, and on an uninhabited
> island in the middle of a lake. Looking at coverage maps of the
> southwest, it looks like it's going to be a coin toss at best to get any
> kind of fast data connection.
>

They blew all their money on the spectrum auctions and  had to scale
back their coverage ambitions.