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Originally Posted by wallcraft
In the South, coverage tends to cluster near Interstates and other major roads. The coverage area might only be 5% (or less) of the land, but I assume it is much higher fraction of the households.
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"Together, urbanized areas, urban clusters, and rural places occupy 5.4 percent of the nation’s land, while urban areas alone cover just 2.6 percent. Rural open space thus covers between 94.6 and 97.4 percent of the land in the United States."
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=12402
Throw a dart at a map of the US and chances are the spot that it hits will have no mobile data coverage, yet hardly anyone cares.
Would you be willing to increase your mobile phone bill by a factor of 19 (say instead of $29/month you had to pay over $500/month) to have 100% coverage in the continental United States? Is it worth everyone paying that much more just to increase the number of people with coverage by 5%?
Z.