TIME Magazineのインスタグラム(time) - 12月1日 00時21分

On average, between April and June of 2023, U.S. cellphone users reported that out of every 100 times they tried to use data, text, or make a call, they had problems 11 times.

That’s up from about nine problems per connection in most of 2020 and 2021, according to a report from J.D. Power & Associates. All three major carriers—Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T had worse scores on this metric in the first part of 2023 than they’d had in early 2021.

There’s no shortage of news stories in the past year about local areas complaining about a sudden uptick in dropped calls and spotty service. So what’s going on? Why, as we march forward into the future, half a century after the first mobile telephone call was made, do we still struggle so much with phone reception?

At the link in bio, TIME's Alana Semuels tries to find out.

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