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AT&T, T-Mobile fight speed tests that could prove their coverage maps wrong;:
The carriers' objections came in response to the FCC seeking comment on a plan to improve the nation's inadequate broadband maps. Besides submitting more accurate coverage maps, the FCC plan would require carriers to do a statistically significant amount of drive testing.
"In order to help verify the accuracy of mobile providers' submitted coverage maps, we propose that carriers submit evidence of network performance based on a sample of on-the-ground tests that is statistically appropriate for the area tested," the FCC proposal issued in July 2020 said.
This could prevent repeats of cases in which carriers exaggerated their coverage in FCC filings, which can result in government broadband funding not going to the areas where it is needed most. Small carriers that compete against the big three in rural areas previously had to conduct drive tests at their own expense in order to prove that the large carriers didn't serve the areas they claimed to serve.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai did not punish Verizon, T-Mobile, and US Cellular after finding that the carriers exaggerated their 4G coverage in official filings. But Pai is moving ahead with plans to require more accurate maps as mandated by Congress.
Previously:
(2019-12-05) FCC Says Wireless Carriers Lie about Coverage 40% of the Time
(2019-11-23) Verizon's New 5G Coverage Maps Show Just How Sparse the Network Is
(2019-02-17) "These Maps are Bogus": U.S. Lawmakers Tear Into Telecom Execs Over Spotty Rural Coverage
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 24 2020, @03:25AM (1 child)
No, I managed it just fine, you're just too fucking stupid to connect the dots. You claim that I've failed to establish relevance, but you're also too fucking stupid to be able to support that claim. It's a typical tactic of people too stupid to know how to argue, they can't raise cogent objections, so they claim the other side failed to meet the burden of proof. Which to an extent is fine, if I haven't met the burden of proof to change your mind, that's something you get to decide for yourself.
But, to claim that the anti-tax, anti-regulation politicians that mainly win on the basis of rural votes doesn't establish relevance is either disingenuous or monumental stupidity. Those politicians are the driving force behind corporations being allowed to take the money and not deliver. The other party pursuing those voters is what makes it happen even quicker. Neither party really wants urban voters and it's rather clear.
Which is rather ridiculous considering that they're going after a minority of the vote and that size of that contingency continues to shrink making it more and more farcical with every election.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday August 24 2020, @03:44AM
Sorry, sonny. You mention burden of proof, among other things? But, you haven't even established relevance. Let us go back to the point I started at:
Big corporations are fucking us, each and every one of us. You point at the voters in "flyover country". I ask you about the relevance of those voters. Bear in mind, both parties have voted to give all that money to the telcos. Every election cycle the telcos get more money. So, how does it matter how flyover country votes? It is irrelevant.
Bottom line, you are fucked whether there is a D or an R in any, or in all offices in Washington. And, Establishment Joe sure as hell isn't going to change anything.
See if you can find some old Perry Mason reruns, and try to figure out what an objection of relevancy is all about. Pointing fingers at rural folk isn't going to improve your internet service, anywhere in this country.
Hail to the Nibbler in Chief.