re: #29 Backwoods_Sleuth

Access still sucks in much of America.

The place I was last weekend used to have no cell phone service except if you stood one place ‘downtown’, but then they had a big, big forest fire, and the firefighters were having trouble communicating, so a tower went up. Now they have cell service in the whole community. All it took was a major disaster that they still (2 years later) haven’t recovered from.

The area near the Mexican border has terrible coverage. Hundreds of lives could be saved if the whole border was covered, because the people lost in the desert have phones on them. That’s one thing Gabby Giffords was advocating when she was shot. Haven’t heard much about progress since then.