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by AntiUSAbah 33 days ago
And to add to this: They still have packet loss when they switch the satelites every 1-4 minutes.
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Packet loss is an assumption with cellular, so accommodations are built into all stages, including the variable rate vocoders used! And, a bit of packet loss is still better than literally no service, which was the previously, economically driven, state for these places.

There's a 20% increase in satellites planned, with possible 300% increase in the future, so it should reduce.

If only there was some sort of transmission control protocol that was resilient to packet loss!