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Did you have a smartphone 10 years ago? Do you remember what 3G was like? Wasn't so bad, right? Try using 3G in any metropolitan area today, a lot of times it's
by InclinedPlane 8y ago
Did you have a smartphone 10 years ago? Do you remember what 3G was like? Wasn't so bad, right? Try using 3G in any metropolitan area today, a lot of times it's painfully slow. Why is that? Congestion. The reason to upgrade isn't necessarily to improve the best case performance for a single user it's to provide a better quality of service for a larger number of users. Anyone who's attended an event like comic-con or PAX knows just how easy it is for even 4G LTE to get saturated with connections.
- dnautics 8y agoprobably part of it is also inconsiderate developers.
- StudentStuff 8y agoAnd cell carriers running 3G networks with minimal spectrum. Why leave spectrum on older protocols like 3G, when it could be making your LTE network faster? Hence T-Mobile killing 3G in many areas, with 2G stuffed into the guard bands of their LTE broadcasts. Not much spectrum allocated for 2G either...
- worble 8y agoIt still is, when you're not on a website that takes forever to load it's javascript bloat nonsense. I'd far prefer it these networks worked on expanding their coverage. Living in the south of Wales both my house and work are almost complete dead zones, and it boggles my mind this is still an issue.