Attenuation sometimes a good thing
Attenuation is a good thing for urban areas. You don't want the signals bouncing off walls hundreds of times then arriving as a mess of echoes. You don't want devices in shouting matches, each trying to get above the background noise of the others. High attenuation essentially creates perfectly clean point-to-point communications.
Downside - we're back to holding the phone up in the air to get a signal.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
