To keep the Puerto Rican informed instead of just listening to the news who keeps pushing their own agenda.
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Apple and AT&T Team Up to Improve Cellular Service in Puerto Rico With LTE Band 8 Activation
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I've seen this before.. AT&T does an amazing job with recovering the cell network after disasters like this. I guess Verizon does it too...AT&T (along with Verizon) does this routinely after disasters. AT&T NDR teams are dedicated to such disasters.
But, I'm really curious -- does T-Mobile and/or Sprint not do anything like this? What are their responses to disaster?
In other words; if I'm an AT&T customer, I'm probably going to have cell service after a natural disaster.. But, what happens if I'm a T-Mobile customer? Am I screwed? Sprint? Really Curious...
What??? I thought the president fixed it by throwing paper towel rolls at Lations???
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Both T-Mobile and AT&T reported receiving reinforcements from abroad, with disaster specialists, replacement pieces and everything needed to accelerate the recovery.
Meanwhile, Claro reported that it already has voice, data and long distance services in eight of its offices and that the same services are operating in 55 of the 78 municipalities
At&t, claro and TMobile are using "open roaming" to help the consumer, free of charge.
So a carrier update enables band 8. band 8 is there to put in coverage where current infrastructure has failed, so there's no coverage.
How do you download the carrier update to connect to the internet if you can't connect to the internet?
How do you download the carrier update to connect to the internet if you can't connect to the internet?
Funny thing is only a few AM stations where up for the duration and post of hurricane Maria. Most people here now tune in to the radio since that is what reaches the most people and even officials had to use the an stations to give info in what was happening to the people because there was no other form at the time and the first week. Old tech beat out everything else.
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You can't.
They can't activate them - the FM capability exist in the modems but the pins aren't connected to anything, particularly not to anything which could act as an antenna. There is no software switch they can flip to 'turn it on', the hardware was never designed to be able to use the FM feature.
I am no where near Puerto Rico (I live in NY) but I got a carrier update tonight. Assuming it did not activate Band 8, however, it is just a little weird I got a carrier update when AT&T is pushing out carrier updates supposedly just for PR. Oh well, either way I will take it.
My guess is since there has been an emergency declaration in PR, that the FCC has cut the red tape and opened up the band to help the Puerto Rican people. Just a guess, but it's all I have.
For clarification... "The government" hasn't failed. The current administration has. Just ask anyone who (like me) has received successful and speedy FEMA assistance in Florida. "the government" did a fine job here. even after widespread outages and flooding from hurricanes
It is directly related to the way the adminstration views it's obligation to Puerto Rico. Which in this case is an embarrassment.
How are they listening to the news with no electricity and no cellular service? I swear you people just make this stuff up out of thin air.
That is simply not true. Several teardowns have proven otherwise. Even Tim Cook only said iPhones since the 7. He was very specific in his statement. He refused to comment on the 6s or older. But even what he said about the 7 has been proven untrue.
Coincidentally, I checked my iPhone and went to "About" and up popped a message saying my Carrier settings have been updated. I'm in SoCal. So, maybe you are right. Doesn't matter much, though, since we don't have any Band 8 equipment here (as far as I know!).
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Looking at T-Mobiles coverage map for PR, it looks like the island was about 90% covered. Considering how rural many parts of the island appear to be, that's better coverage than on the mainland where rural areas have little to no TM coverage.
The US government has less responsibility to PR as it would to a state, because PR isn't a state. It has its own government, which apparently is almost completely ineffective. So did Detroit, mind you, but Detroit is actually inside the United States and was made subject to US oversight.