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Re:Twitter Digits by adventured on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @09:21PM (#8496237)
Very surprised to see the Netherlands at 90%, New Zealand at 86%, Sweden at 88%, Japan at 84%, and Australia at 79%. Seems incredibly low for countries with reasonably high quality telecom infrastructures.
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Re:Twitter Digits by minor_nitwit on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @09:53PM (#8496333)
New Zealand, Australia, and to a lesser extent Sweden all have vast areas with very low, near zero population densities. Could that be impacting the deliverability?
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Re:Twitter Digits by k1kingy on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @11:01PM (#8496520)
Absolutely. Outside of the metro areas you start to lose service. Smaller towns sometimes lack service altogether on some providers. Anywhere bush/mountain you'd be very very lucky to get service (of which there is a lot).
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