Comment I am one of those affected (Score 1) 142
I am one of those affected. I live in a rural village, not far from a national highway, close to a city, and I have no cellphone signal. (*)
This village has fairly frequent power outages (three or four times a year), so we rely on the landline for emergency calls.
Our phone provider simply fails to understand the issue, fails to understand that there are pockets like this all over the country. They claim that the solutions they offer are good enough. No, they aren't. And they want to charge money for their feeble idea of a backup.
Someone will die before they wake up.
(*) The signal is so poor because some environmental clown decided that a short mast was good enough (it's no taller than the surrounding trees). The shape of the land does the rest. The signal goes in a straight line over our heads.
This village has fairly frequent power outages (three or four times a year), so we rely on the landline for emergency calls.
Our phone provider simply fails to understand the issue, fails to understand that there are pockets like this all over the country. They claim that the solutions they offer are good enough. No, they aren't. And they want to charge money for their feeble idea of a backup.
Someone will die before they wake up.
(*) The signal is so poor because some environmental clown decided that a short mast was good enough (it's no taller than the surrounding trees). The shape of the land does the rest. The signal goes in a straight line over our heads.
