Comments on: Cellular connection map of the U.S. http://boingboing.net/2011/07/08/cellular-connection.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Fri, 24 May 2013 14:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: eaglescout1984 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/08/cellular-connection.html#comment-1160225 eaglescout1984 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1160225 I guess no one in Washington DC uses AT&T. I guess no one in Washington DC uses AT&T.

]]> By: royaltrux http://boingboing.net/2011/07/08/cellular-connection.html#comment-1157924 royaltrux Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1157924 Apparently I live in a call-over state, sigh. Apparently I live in a call-over state, sigh.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/07/08/cellular-connection.html#comment-1157929 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1157929 Really makes the midwest look isolated, doesn't it? It would be interesting to scale the results by inverse of population density, to get an average idea of how interconnected the average person is. Really makes the midwest look isolated, doesn’t it? It would be interesting to scale the results by inverse of population density, to get an average idea of how interconnected the average person is.

]]> By: fraac http://boingboing.net/2011/07/08/cellular-connection.html#comment-1157956 fraac Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1157956 Intrinsically meaningless but useful like Chris Rock, says Andrew Gelman: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2011/07/different_goals.html Intrinsically meaningless but useful like Chris Rock, says Andrew Gelman: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2011/07/different_goals.html

]]> By: dheisel http://boingboing.net/2011/07/08/cellular-connection.html#comment-1158231 dheisel Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1158231 More useless visualizations out of MIT's Senseable City Lab. They have been putting these videos and images out for years now. It looks all fancy and cool, but there is no substance or utility. The most remarkable part is how the managed to get the telecom companies to give them all the cell phone call records. More useless visualizations out of MIT’s Senseable City Lab. They have been putting these videos and images out for years now. It looks all fancy and cool, but there is no substance or utility. The most remarkable part is how the managed to get the telecom companies to give them all the cell phone call records.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/07/08/cellular-connection.html#comment-1157977 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1157977 Wow are all those black areas dead zones with no coverage? Wow are all those black areas dead zones with no coverage?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/07/08/cellular-connection.html#comment-1159035 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1159035 No I don't know this map. My map of the United States includes Hawaii and Alaska. No I don’t know this map. My map of the United States includes Hawaii and Alaska.

]]> By: Dawn deMom http://boingboing.net/2011/07/08/cellular-connection.html#comment-1158016 Dawn deMom Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1158016 I live in Montana. After Verizon bought Alltel they had to sell their Alltel in Montana. AT&T bought the network. People could either leave Alltel or stay and those who stayed, believing this was a reliable network that would work for Montana were very shocked when their phones went online and they couldn't get out from their much-too-rural-for-GSM service. People lined up in Havre to return their phones, get out of AT&T, and try to find something that would work. Verizon isn't much better. They constantly drop calls, something I had not had happen much of in 10 years with Cellular One/Alltel. I see Montana, the Dakotas, Wyoming - all states where there is no AT&T service. Knowing this is done before AT&T came to Montana, it makes me wonder if this shows the future, too, in that we still have no reliable AT&T service in Montana! I live in Montana. After Verizon bought Alltel they had to sell their Alltel in Montana. AT&T bought the network. People could either leave Alltel or stay and those who stayed, believing this was a reliable network that would work for Montana were very shocked when their phones went online and they couldn’t get out from their much-too-rural-for-GSM service. People lined up in Havre to return their phones, get out of AT&T, and try to find something that would work. Verizon isn’t much better. They constantly drop calls, something I had not had happen much of in 10 years with Cellular One/Alltel.

I see Montana, the Dakotas, Wyoming – all states where there is no AT&T service. Knowing this is done before AT&T came to Montana, it makes me wonder if this shows the future, too, in that we still have no reliable AT&T service in Montana!

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