Your situation doesn't tell us anything about whether the congestion was the backhaul or not. IMHO, their backhaul most likely wasn't the issue. You can have 10

Your situation doesn't tell us anything about whether the congestion was the backhaul or not. IMHO, their backhaul most likely wasn't the issue. You can have 100,000 people all right next to a cell tower and while they won't have any usable service, they'll still see 5 bars.