[Scoundreller]

I hope there's some broadcast stuff planned (does cellular support multicast like that?). So I can just point my phone at the sky and get some news/weather/traffic updates "off-line". Maybe a radio station or two? It's pretty impressive what can fit into 32kbps (or less!) these days.

[Gare]

Yes, that's how SMS emergency alerts work

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_Broadcast

[Scoundreller]

> is part of the 2G, 3G, 4G LTE (telecommunication) and 5G standards

Interesting as Canada's system only works on LTE or higher (we still have 3G here).

I camped on 3G for a while because they kept sending out Amber Alerts at the "Presidential" level for custody disputes. Gov repeatedly denied any issue but haven't sent any for a while. Either people stopped "abducting" their own kids or they changed their threshold-to-blast.

[kalleboo]

Was your 3G on CDMA2000 rather than the 3GPP UMTS/WCDMA/HSDPA standards? That could account for the difference

[Scoundreller]

One of our two big networks was, the other was not.

[gonesilent]

Viasats service supported this via USB plug in drive on the modem to load some content. Don't think it was released out of beta.