From my personal experience in Poland: You can have LTE+ or even 5G in cities, but traveling by train means that in some areas only a select few extra-lightwei

From my personal experience in Poland: You can have LTE+ or even 5G in cities, but traveling by train means that in some areas only a select few extra-lightweight pages like Hacker News are able to load before a timeout or connection loss occurs. So yes, in some situations even that amount of payload could have a meaningful impact. “Modern” connections are irrelevant if we are talking about regions, which are not viable for a high-speed infrastructure. And such places are almost everywhere. Mountainous parts of Japan, many American regions, or sparsely populated Polish regions. Of course, how much it is important varies greatly.