Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Mobile networks
Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2010–2026), in 9 threads.
People raised many different problems with Mobile networks, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 9 complaints
- Callback time entry is confusing; unclear time format and slots, and unavailable times with no explanation2026-03-04
- Sites take 20-30 seconds to load, scrolling unusable after throttling2025-08-09
- USSD code silently exits with no error, pushing users to install an app2025-02-13
- Pageloads take minutes on saturated towers; sites and apps are unusable on slow connections2025-02-13
- Chat session times out after two minutes of inactivity, while replies often take longer2024-10-20
- People run up huge bills without knowing roaming or overage charges are happening2020-07-04
- Users can't tell how much data a website or app will use before incurring costs2017-12-14
- Callers are held on hold for at least half an hour before reaching anyone2012-05-29
- Users can't tell how much data they've used or what consumes it2010-06-03