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Re:'One Ring' Phone Scam by kalleboo on Monday May 06, 2019 @02:26AM (#19837260)
> I almost never have LTE or even mobile data of any kind when I'm outside of cities (for a liberal definition of city)

I'm curious what countries /places these are. My operator doesn't even activate 3G on modern phones, I literally have nothing aside from LTE/VoLTE. Since LTE got deployed on the low frequencies reclaimed from analog TV, the reception is generally BETTER than 3G etc.

Also when there are natural disasters, the voice infrastructure is the first to collapse, but data in chat apps still makes it through

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Re:'One Ring' Phone Scam by throwawayjava on Monday May 06, 2019 @07:37PM (#19845022)
> I'm curious what countries /places these are.

The United States. Not even the western or mountain states! One of the places I regularly go that doesn't have data coverage but does have voice coverage is in a national (or maybe state there?) forest in New York state.

> Also when there are natural disasters, the voice infrastructure is the first to collapse, but data in chat apps still makes it through

I don't have any experience with this, so I'll take your word for it.

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