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 @91f99226 no.  Northwest Indiana, about 45 min east of the city.  But I am in and out of the city picking up parts for our business all the time. 
 @2a188b69 ok look (TM)

45min. out of a city means you could be in a unrecoverable radio gap (Funkloch) in Switzerland. From all cities. No harm there. But if there are more than a few thousand living at that spot it becomes bizarre. Why is it that we have coverage in remote regions and many, many countries elsewhere don't? 
 @2a188b69 ok look (TM)

45min. out of a city means you could be in a unrecoverable radio gap (Funkloch) in Switzerland bc there are many gulches, gills and ravines. From all cities. No snark there. But if there are more than a few thousand living at that spot it becomes bizarre. Why is it that we have coverage in remote regions and many, many countries elsewhere don't? 
 @91f99226  our county has a population of about a half a million people.  My city alone has about 40k people.  It’s purely a matter of the infrastructure cannot handle the traffic it is getting. Verizon did a shite job of prepping and executing the roll out. 
 @2a188b69 and the other uh three/two/five?

Half a million equals half of my Canton with areas where city folk think who tf lives here lol

I can only explain this with corruption or genuinely missallocated funds for the woods. It happens here too, some minor number turns out to be not so minor and somebody has to correct...

Hackernews thinks that the US law needs to be changed so that a county can license/build their own. 
 @91f99226 how large (in KM) is a Canton there?  My city is roughly 28.9 km2.  We have 500k people living within a 1000km2 area sharing a physical border with the 3rd largest city in the US.  As far as corruption goes, it’s what politics is all about here.  We call Cook County (Chicago) “Crook County” and our Lake County “Crook County East”. 
 @2a188b69 to abbreviate where I live it is this
Many are smaller, many are denser. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canton_of_Bern#Geography 
 @2a188b69 Many parts in the South have bad coverage (meaning 3G or 4G). But overall the places where most are have imho perfect mobile Internet. 
 @2a188b69 Many parts in the South have bad coverage (meaning 3G or 4G). But overall the places where villages or towns are bigger have imho perfect mobile Internet. 
 @91f99226 and lol at “LOOK”.  Snark is my native language so snark away, :)