Here's a weird thing I'm trying to figure out.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

Here's a weird thing I'm trying to figure out. The mobile carriers are required to report their coverage to the FCC. They send them huge maps every six months, which the FCC makes available. But, the maps are wrong, missing big chunks of areas that I know have some coverage (in a few cases because I've been there and used LTE, in other cases because I checked the coverage map on the carrier's website and it shows broader coverage). So, why are the maps they send to the FCC wrong?

[jhaas@a2mi.social]

@swelljoe There is a desperate need to let network users submit coverage gap issues direct to the regulators.

[swelljoe@mas.to]

@jhaas that's also true. There are third party commercial services that try to do that (coveragemap.com, etc., though they just let you choose between the FCC map and maps built from user-submitted data they called the "verified map", which is even less complete...ideally they'd be merged), but there's no public data source that I can find.

I mean, it's good that the government requires vendors to provide these maps. And, I guess it's good they're seemingly not exaggerating, in my experience.