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Hey HN! I'm built a map to show what ISPs are available in different areas. The FCC offers its own mapping tool that's pretty good, but it tends not to surface in search engines. F…

That sort of decoupling could be fascinating. IMO, the walls may be as much a function of economics as physics. Running a small number of powerful radios on low-frequency spectrum …

I'm sympathetic to a lot of the points here, but a key part of the story got left out: T-Mobile's performance used to suck vs. Verizon and AT&T. When T-Mo's network was crummy, the…

I think it'll continue to be. T-Mobile needs to differentiate services somehow & last I checked, subscribers on T-Mobile's older in-house + low-cost brand, Metro, generally receive…

No, but I won't be surprised if the plans stick around longer. Speculating here, but I think odds are good T-Mobile continues to offer them for longer than required & just stops th…

Thank you! I don't have that info in the current datasets, but I could imagine down the road having a data source with latency information. Network congestion is another beast. It'…

Hi HN! I built a map that shows cell coverage from the major US networks. It draws primarily on data from the FCC, but that's supplemented/calibrated with a bunch of crowdsourced d…