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Re:Why are antennas popping up all over the foothills? SLC s... by Retric on Thursday January 05, 2023 @05:57PM (#34268172)
I’ve heard major metro area as roughly being top 100 cities in the world which Salt Lake City is nowhere close to.

If anything Salt Lake seems about average size for a city.

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Re:Why are antennas popping up all over the foothills? SLC s... by jasonwatkinspdx on Thursday January 05, 2023 @06:10PM (#34268318)
Yeah, let's just derail into a subthread bickering about what threshold counts as a major metro area, vs meaningfully engaging with the actual topic at hand.

This place is cursed with the worst pointless nerd sniping behavior.

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Re:Why are antennas popping up all over the foothills? SLC s... by Retric on Thursday January 05, 2023 @07:05PM (#34268921)
Talking about metro size is actually relevant because if it was a major metro area like say LA they could actually use the cellphone network that would blanket the area. Instead it’s a modest city in basically the middle of nowhere thus the problem.

Complaining, on the other hand is a complete waste of everyone’s time.

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