I’ve driven across the States enough times now that I prefer it to airports.
I remember when the iPhone introducing a 3G version was a big deal. Even feature phones like my father’s old Samsung Eternity had it.
Tons of deadspots outside major metros.
I remember when Sprint marketed WiMAX with the HTC Evo. And T-Mobile with HSPA+ with the myTouch.
The mobile market was more interesting back in high school.
Both trying to claim the 4G title, but by the time I made it to undergrad, LTE was the standard and every phone had the candy-bar form factor.
Throwback to the Nexus 5. Back when a solid phone cost less than $500 new. Credit where credit is due, minus the bloat (so much for “pure Android”), the 10a has been useable.
Still a handful of deadspots when driving through Pennsyltucky.
By the time I left Pittsburgh to drive down to Austin, 5G seemed like the new normal.
I was driving through Arkansas, Kentucky, and Tennessee recently.
Guess whose phone calls consistently dropped.
It is 2026.
How the actual fuck are there still deadspots and congestion in our cell networks.
Even in cities, my phone still stalls when loading web pages. My connection stutters and stalls whatever video or audio I’m streaming. My OS is increasingly hostile.
We can barely deliver a reliable mobile or physical internet service. Something I can get for a fraction of the price in South and Southeast Asia.
Yet y’all seem to keep telling me we’re somehow going to have a nationwide buildout of AI datacenters.