Yup. The downlink is always easy (from the tower to the phone). The uplink is always the weakest link because the size of the device, the limited battery the li

Yup. The downlink is always easy (from the tower to the phone). The uplink is always the weakest link because the size of the device, the limited battery the limited size of the antenna due to the form factor of the phone and so on. If it was strictly a broadcast solution it would be a lot easier, but even if you are streaming youtube, you still need the uplink for TCP and so on.