How many times do you have to scream hello while connecting with a driver after booking a cab? How often do you leave a room and go to the balcony to complete a call on your expensive smartphone? How frequently does your Zoom call freeze as the broadband data connection snaps? And how often do you depend on the good old landline phone when all else disappoints? The likely answer to all these questions would be umpteen times! Welcome to telephony in the time of 5G.
Call drops and weak signals, however, are not a phenomenon limited to rural India
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