We recently did a map refresh update for our iOS app Coverage?. If you’re not familiar with our little app yet, it overlays coverage maps from the 4 major cellular carriers, and is intended to help us mobile bandwidth junkies better plan our routes to stay connected. It started as a selfish project to better enable our own travels.
When Chris was preparing the update text for the App Store description, he (part jokingly) phrased it as
‘LTE coverage is rolling out across the nation faster than mold growing on a stale tortilla’.
At first I raised an eye brow at this.
But comparing the LTE coverage for the major carriers from just last October to this May…
Well, by golly, that LTE mold sure is growing mighty fast!
And we technomads sure do like that.
Interested in all things mobile internet? Well, we’re putting the finishing touches on our new ebook – The Mobile Internet Handbook. It’s 85 pages (!!) of information about assembling your own personal arsenal of cellular data, WiFi, satellite and properly setting your expectations.
We hope to be making an official announcement early next week, and for sure it’ll be available in PDF directly from us, and on Amazon Kindle. And if we’re really lucky, we’ll manage to get through the submission process for Apple iBooks shortly thereafter.
We’re super nervous and super excited! Wow, we wrote a book?? (blink)
I am so glad there is a kindle edition. I am looking forward to reading it!
The map shows the heavy eastern bias of the cell companies, and that it’s not yet worth checking out LTE for me since there is no coverage in areas I spend most of the year.
I don’t think it’s necessarily a geographic bias – but rather a bais towards deploying first where their highest density of customers are.
Hi Technomads. We are not full-timers, but do a lot of travel in our motorhome, and I have followed your blog since you bought the bus. A location you might check out as you near Portland is the Boardman RV park. This is 45 miles west of Pendleton, Oregon, and is right on the Columbia river. Lots of grassy sites and some room for your big rig. We plan to stop there, again, on our upcoming western trip. http://www.boardmanmarinapark.com/