Facebook to Telcos: Forget Hardware Empires—Let’s All Share
Mar 06, 2017•8 min
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Episode description
After two decades of Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint ads, you know how the big telcos deliver cellular service to your smartphone. Each builds its own nationwide wireless network, boasting that its particular web of data centers, fiber lines, and antennas is faster and more reliable (or at least cheaper) than the others.
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