Vice Motherboard: FCC Says Wireless Carriers Lie About Coverage 40% of the Time

A new FCC study confirms what most people already knew: when it comes to wireless coverage maps, your mobile carrier is often lying to you.

If you head to any major wireless carrier website, you’ll be inundated with claims of coast to coast, uniform availability of wireless broadband. But, as countless studies have shown, these claims usually have only a tenuous relation to reality, something you’ve likely noticed if you’ve ever driving across the country or stopped by mobile carrier forums.

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