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Re:Self-driving truck delivers butter from California to Pen... by scarejunba on Thursday December 12, 2019 @05:30AM (#21770793)
Is that actually true? My parents had phones around then and they've always had this habit where they say "Hello! HELLO!" At the shortest momentary pause in the conversation.
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Re:Self-driving truck delivers butter from California to Pen... by wccrawford on Thursday December 12, 2019 @08:36AM (#21771681)
No, we had calls drop often enough when I was a kid. But we didn't live in a big city, and it wasn't surprising to us when it happened.

It happened about as often as it happens to me with a cellphone when neither party is moving between towers and has decent coverage.

We expect cell drops because of a technology constraint, even in big cities. Likewise, I think the parent poster is right that we'll expect it more once it starts happening more.

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