I remember having this on a VPS in the 3G/HSPA era, circa 2008-2013. It did make a difference in browsing. Around that time some cellular operators would offer

I remember having this on a VPS in the 3G/HSPA era, circa 2008-2013. It did make a difference in browsing. Around that time some cellular operators would offer similar compression turned on by default when fetching content using their network.