I guess I am out of touch with technology or maybe it is just because the countries I ahve spent the last 20 years living in are all really small but I have never been in a situation where I didn't have a signal. We even had service on boats in the middle of the ocean when I was a scuba instructor.
Now that I think about it I don't even think that this is the topic of your writeup but you are good with the talkin so let's see what happens :)
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There are large stretches of the US where things aren't quite so great as you can imagine. The population density doesn't make it worth it for the big companies to run lines, so they just go unserviced. It's pretty sad . I know a handful of state parks where if my wife and I are traveling there we are going to have sketchy signal.