Radio Holes: Citizens Should Report Poor Cell Phone Reception

There is still no or only bad cell phone reception in some places in Germany. That wants to change politics - and calls on citizens to measure cell phone reception themselves.

As part of the third mobile phone measuring week, gaps in the mobile phone network are to be identified from Monday. Anyone can help with this.

The Federal Network Agency is calling on citizens to participate in the first nationwide mobile network measurement week, which will start on Monday. "We want to collect more data on network availability and identify the last remaining gaps in the network," Network Agency President Klaus Müller told the Funke Media Group newspapers (Friday editions). To detect dead spots, they rely on "swarm intelligence": "The more people participate, the bette…

About 7500 square kilometers have no 4G or 5G. Now the citizens are supposed to help in the fight against radio holes.