With the way technology is advancing in the US, dead zones will soon be a thing of the past– at least for T-Mobile.  Earlier today, T-Mobile announced that it had successfully sent and received a wireless emergency alert (WEA) via Starlink satellites equipped with satellite-to-smartphone capabilities. This is an important achievement since this is the first time in US history that a wireless emergency alert was sent via satellite.  A test alert for a hypothetical evacuation notice ... [read full article]
    • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
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      7 days ago

      Interesting. I’ve been on their network since about 2016 when Band 12 was still being deployed and I have seen major improvement since then. As far as network coverage goes.