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Coverage from NC but i live in VA
Hi, Hay i live in Virginia Beach, VA but i am getting block from certain sites because T mobile has me living in NC. Can you help gettin me back to VA?
What I think you are complaining about is the Internet geolocation, right? Well the problem isn’t with T-Mobile, rather it’s with the websites that assume that your physical location is the same as your IP address’ registered location. This is an incorrect and frankly, lousy, assumption to make. There is no requirement in the Internet specs that physical and registered location have any relationship. The way that T-Mobile reuses IP addresses using multiple NATs it’s almost impossible for there to be any correlation.
As a Hampton, VA resident. This is not uncommon.
What I think you are complaining about is the Internet geolocation, right? Well the problem isn’t with T-Mobile, rather it’s with the websites that assume that your physical location is the same as your IP address’ registered location. This is an incorrect and frankly, lousy, assumption to make. There is no requirement in the Internet specs that physical and registered location have any relationship. The way that T-Mobile reuses IP addresses using multiple NATs it’s almost impossible for there to be any correlation.
Instead of continuing to blame this on applications that are NOT ever going to go back to not want/requiring your location why do you update the tower software/firmware to allow users to input the physical location of the tower. You could call it "Tower zip code" This could then be passed to the applications.
