Re:Fairphone is now officially available in the United States
by Noaidi on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @12:18PM
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Cell towers in the United States are primarily owned by three major companies: American Tower, Crown Castle, and SBA Communications. These companies build, acquire, and lease space on the towers to wireless providers.
No more infrastructure needs to be built.
Re:Fairphone is now officially available in the United States
by NetMageSCW on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @03:04PM
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When you say lease space to wireless providers, what do the carriers do with that leased space? Do you think that could be called infrastructure needed for that carrier’s coverage?
Also, there are enough dead zones that satellite direct to cell is a thing.
Mobile network via satellite might increase number of network providers by 1 or 2, but the physics problem of needing tons of physical assets to create a wireless network usable by small, low powered devices remains.
I guess you could innovate some new physics that allows you to send wireless signals through more surfaces, that is also not ionizing radiation to animal and plant tissue, and doesn’t need a lot of power to send from a mobile device. That is a lot to ask, though.