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5G Internet Showing Incorrect Location
Recently installed 5G home internet and it won't give me the correct location. Google Maps has no idea where I'm at but more importantly my local channels on FuboTV are not showing up anymore. How do...
Location for T-Mobile's 5G service reflects where the signal from the towers connects to ground based servers and infrastructure. This can sometimes be hundreds of miles away and even further. This is how the service works.
OK, we know that the problem is that TMobile assigns its users IP addresses from all over its service area and it assigns a new address every time the router connects to a tower, so your IP address is not an accurate indicator of your location. But, the third party geoplocation services that websites use to determine your location, act as if the IP address is an accurate indication of your location.
The solution is for the geolocation services to recognize TMobile IP addresses and treat them specially. They must already be treating cell phones different than wired ISPs. They must be queried for their GPS data. The geolocation providers could establish a system with TMobile to ptovide your correct location.
TMobile must know what tower you are connected to and its location. (They are going to use this data to catch people who travel with their TMobile routers so they can charge them an extra fee.) So why can't TMobile provide a location service to the third party geolocation providers?
I suggest that we begin contacting advertisers. When you get an ad for a business that is clearly too far from your location, contact the advertiser an let them know that they paid for ad that was wasted on you. They will complain to their ad agencies who will start looking for more accurate location data from the geolocation providers.
Phil
OK..let’s roll!… and.. hey ..let’s be careful out there.
