FCC Maps the 3G Wasteland Of the Western US

alphadogg writes "The Federal Communications Commission has released a map showing which counties across the U.S. lacked coverage from either 3G or 4G networks and found that wide swaths of the western half of the country were 3G wastelands, particularly in mountainous states such as Idaho and Nevada. This isn't particularly surprising since it's much more difficult for carriers to afford building out mobile data networks in sparsely populated mountainous regions, but it does underscore how large stretches of the United States lack access to mobile data services that people in the Northeast, South and Midwest now take for granted."

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...and nothing of value was lost

[girlintraining]

...western half of the country were 3G wastelands, particularly in mountainous states such as Idaho and Nevada.

Yes, the economic loss to the nation's economy has been estimated to be in the tens of dollars as people who live in more hospitable areas refuse to subsidize infrastructure for those who lack the brains to move out of unfarmable land with no source of water for hundreds of miles.