 funchordsHelloPremium,MVM join:2001-03-11 Yarmouth Port, MA kudos:5 | 100 million POPs? Wow! 100 million POPs for 87 million subscribers. |
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 tiger72SexaT duorPPremium join:2001-03-28 Saint Louis, MO kudos:1 | 100 million POPs just means that they cover about 100 million people. TMO's current 3g network surpasses 110million POPs, and you can see its size on their coverage map. |
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 w0go.O join:2001-08-30 Springfield, OR | I think it's a typo.. POPs refer to point-of-presence, kind of like a hub that connects multiple sites and actually connects to the Internet. |
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 Chaldo join:2008-03-18 West Bloomfield, MI 1 edit | Yes he is correct, its where the company has equipment to connect to the internet, and that's mostly where you start off with your network. Like if I was running a network at a school, the pop would be where I connect to my fiber provider for the internet. |
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| POPs refers to population covered in the wireless industry - not "Point of Presence" in the typical ISP sense.
run a Howardforums search, and you'll see that POPs refers not to access points but persons covered by (but not necessarily subscribiding to) a cellular service. -- "What makes us omniscient? Have we a record of omniscience? ...If we can't persuade nations with comparable values of the merit of our cause, we'd better reexamine our reasoning." -United States Secretary of Defense (1961-1968) Robert S. McNamara |
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 funchordsHelloPremium,MVM join:2001-03-11 Yarmouth Port, MA kudos:5 | said by tiger72:POPs refers to population covered in the wireless industry - not "Point of Presence" in the typical ISP sense. Thanks! I learned something today!  |
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