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Like last month I noticed I only get LTE, even though my plan is 5g. Few months ago everywhere I went it would be 5g, but now only LTE
Too many people connected to an insufficient network
T-mobiles “map” sez I got great coverage - across the street from me in the cemetery. This side not so much, weird how they figured that. I have to use wifi calling, thankfully we have unlimited data.
It has got consistently better everywhere I am. Every year is a bit better than the previous. Voice quality keeps getting better.
In the USA with net neutrality it will get worse. Carriers will not have an invested interest in improving the infrastructure. Margins are razor thin - imagine a DMV like experience, understaffed and lack of technology.
I live in rural area. If my DSL internet went out, I used to be able to hotspot to my phone and continue basic internet surfing. As of a few years ago, that isn’t possible anymore. I don’t get enough signal to even text reliably.
I can only sms text from my home, mms does not work unless it’s the right time of day and I’m in one of two locations in my house and mercury is in retrograde while. Jupiter is in the fifth house while the fatted lamb is to be slaughtered, then I might be able to send or exeice a handful of mms before my shit goes to hell again and baphomet steals my first born. Luckily wifi calling exists or I’d have to actually pay for a landline
I think internet has so much more shit on it to load now so it needs more signal just to get something basic loaded
The FCC has coverage maps provided by the big 3, but you can also submit a challenge to their claims to try to make a more accurate map (since they lie their asses off). I’m on mobile, so apologies for the lack of formatting:
Not surprising. 5G has less range than 4G, which had less range than 3G, etc. National carriers have been updating equipment on their existing towers, but haven’t been erecting new ones. They don’t want to pay for it.
Not exactly true. 700MHz LTE actually had better range than 850MHz 3G, which is the lowest frequency that 3G used across any carrier. All of the carriers now have 850MHz 5G, and T-Mobile has 600MHz 5G which reaches even further.
The network tech used doesn’t determine the range of the signal, only the frequency does. The difference is that low-band signals are so overloaded now which causes their range to significantly decrease
I can’t get a good signal in half of my town on T-Mobile
Bloomington, Indiana!
AT&T has been great for me. I did a speed test outside the other day and I got a gigabit down.
It used to be 30 tops so I’d call that an improvement.
UK chiming in here… phone coverage and bandwidth are very good almost everywhere now and getting better with 5G.
At home I pay £40 ($50) a month for 300mb/sec internet, hundreds of TV channels and a landline. My cell phone bill is £9.50 a month.
Our phones are prioritizing sending data out to all the organizations that collect our data. The background usage of a lot of big apps like Reddit and Meta ones is unreal. Gotta get that targeted ad information out as quick as possible.
You’re right. I’m neither imagining nor experiencing it.
*in the U.S.A
and UK, london reception is fucking awful
Same here in the UK. I get full bars but shit speed in city centres.
Oh please, telecoms being greedy is universal. This also isn’t as much of a self-deprecatory comment as you think it is. Oh, my poor country is so full of phones and tablets we can’t keep up :(
In OZ, signal is very good, with black spots all over the country, but these have been there since CDMA was abandoned.
To be honest I haven’t experienced this at all. It’s only gotten slowly better every year since I got my first phone over 20 years ago.
O2 is absolutely terrible.
Multiple places in greater london I don’t get signal. Don’t even speak of wandering further afield to backwaters like Essex