Most Northerly/Southerly Places with Cell Coverage
Aug 25, 2015, 2:21 pm
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Most Northerly/Southerly Places with Cell Coverage
I've just discovered that Verizon's international roaming coverage map claims they can offer cell coverage in Sachs Harbour, Northwest Territories, Canada. This settlement is just a hair south of 72° north.
Does anyone know of a location at a higher parallel with cell coverage?
Does anyone know of a location at a higher parallel with cell coverage?
Aug 25, 2015, 2:29 pm
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I've just discovered that Verizon's international roaming coverage map claims they can offer cell coverage in Sachs Harbour, Northwest Territories, Canada. This settlement is just a hair south of 72° north.
Does anyone know of a location at a higher parallel with cell coverage?
Does anyone know of a location at a higher parallel with cell coverage?
Aug 27, 2015, 1:19 pm
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Further place north I've ever been was northern Finland, which of COURSE had full coverage (but the Norwegian islands are further north than the mainland)..furthest place south, offshore of Ushuaia about 74 miles south. Still had coverage.. but then nothing.
Aug 28, 2015, 4:22 am
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For North America I'm going to go with Grise Fiord Nunavut's QINIQ service. Ottawa funded their Motorola 2.5GHz "Pre-WiMax" to LTE conversion earlier this summer. I think LTE goes live next April.
Aug 29, 2015, 4:13 am
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There's cell coverage in Antartica, at least around some of the Argentine bases.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleco..._in_Antarctica
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleco..._in_Antarctica
Aug 29, 2015, 6:12 am
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This is probably a big contributing factor to the original Iridium going under. They simply underestimated both the rate, and the geographic extent, of cellular network growth.
Aug 29, 2015, 2:15 pm
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There's cell coverage in Antartica, at least around some of the Argentine bases.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleco..._in_Antarctica
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleco..._in_Antarctica