White House officials said the installation was an effort to increase internet availability at the complex. They said that some areas of the property could not get cell service and that the existing Wi-Fi infrastructure was overtaxed.

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    I can believe areas of the White House have no cell service, on purpose. Remember when they found those fake cell towers around DC?

    https://www.wired.com/story/dcs-stingray-dhs-surveillance/

    I bet at some point they installed some cell phone jammers specifically to limit the amount of foreign spying that could be done by fake towers, and they simply “forgot” to tell the incoming Trump administration…

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      probably more likely they fired the original IT team and replaced them with Muskite interns