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Verizon 'Grossly Overstated' Its 4G LTE Coverage In Government Filings, Trade Group Says (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Verizon "grossly overstated" its 4G LTE coverage in government filings, potentially preventing smaller carriers from obtaining funding needed to expand coverage in underserved rural areas, a trade group says. The Federal Communications Commission last year required Verizon and other carriers to file maps and data indicating their current 4G LTE coverage. The information will help the FCC determine where to distribute up to $4.5 billion in Mobility Fund money over the next 10 years. The funds are set aside for "primarily rural areas that lack unsubsidized 4G," the FCC says. If Verizon provided the FCC with inaccurate data, the company's rural competitors might not be able to get that government funding. "Verizon's claimed 4G LTE coverage is grossly overstated," the Rural Wireless Association (RWA), which represents rural carriers, told the FCC in a filing yesterday. "Verizon should not be allowed to abuse the FCC challenge process by filing a sham coverage map as a means of interfering with the ability of rural carriers to continue to receive universal service support in rural areas," the RWA wrote. "RWA's members are in the middle of the Challenge Process but are expending enormous time and financial resources in their efforts due to inaccurate data submitted by Verizon," the group said. "RWA requests that the Commission investigate the 4G LTE coverage claimed by Verizon and require re-filing of Verizon's data to correct its overstated coverage."
According to the RWA, Verizon claims to cover almost all of the Oklahoma Panhandle, an area of 14,778.47 square kilometers, but estimates that the actual coverage area should be approximately 6,806.49 square kilometers. "[That's] not even half of the LTE coverage area Verizon publicly claims to serve," the RWA wrote.
According to the RWA, Verizon claims to cover almost all of the Oklahoma Panhandle, an area of 14,778.47 square kilometers, but estimates that the actual coverage area should be approximately 6,806.49 square kilometers. "[That's] not even half of the LTE coverage area Verizon publicly claims to serve," the RWA wrote.
> one of the largest economies
Right up there with Mexico and India. A very large pile of shit actually isn't something to brag about. That's what the silliest of the liberals always say when people point put the economic problems in California, as of having 8 million people living in poverty is the goal.
What matters are the *rates*. For example, what *percentage* of residents are living in poverty. California has the #1 highest poverty rate in the country, according to the US Census Bureau.
https://www.census.gov/content...
That's mostly because all of Californias government programs and edicts cost a lot of money. For example, groceries cost 26% more in Los Angeles than they do in Dallas, because all the extra government red tape and PC bullshit costs the stores a lot more money. Nominal incomes in California aren't bad, but when the government takes $266 billion out of the economy every year (twice as much as Texas) in order to spend $100 billion and ten years failing to build a railroad track, while also burdening everyone with the most expensive pile of ridiculous regulations in the country, including the law regulating cow farts (SB 1383).
Big isn't good when it's a big pile of shit. With the highest supplemental poverty rate in the nation, California's economy is a very large pile of cow manure.