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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
Is around here, the mast is right there lol
Here in the Phoenix, AZ area, there are random spots on major highways in the middle of the city-( specifically a section of L-202 and a separate two sections on I-17-- that I can completely drop a call in. And I’ve tried this in the past few months with a Verizon, AT&T, and a t-mobile phone and they all lose signal at roughly the same spots.
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.
I live outside a major(but still smaller) city in Arizona, I’m basically in the middle of nowhere and the only thing around is the neighborhood I live in. I don’t get full bars here but my LTE service works pretty much flawlessly.
Now every time I go into town I get full bars of service but it’s so slow it’s pretty much unusable because the network there is overloaded.
Flagstaff cell service has been basically unusable downtown for at least the last five or six years.
This. Network congestion because of lacking infrastructure is the cause.
Many people are somewhat misunderstandingly blaming 5G. But it uses the exact same frequencies as 4G, and also some more, notably for short range communication, say up to a few hundred feet.
The added frequencies in 5G shine in short distance communication. For example to enjoy high speeds at home or in your car in the city. But you have to have a line of sight to the nearest 5G transceiver. Which in rural situations will never be near enough so you default back to the same ‘4G’ tower.
My favorite thing of recent memory was I went to a Chiefs preseason game where the stadium was only half full. T-Mobile had all these banners up about “Data Strong” and all this bullshit, but I couldn’t make a call or send a text with that company.
T-Mobile, y’all fucking suck.
Verizon eliminating 3G killed a lot of areas that needed it for bridging the gaps on 4G/5G. I believe a lot of older frequencies were eliminated from other companies too.
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.
now that 2g is gone, so is long range radio’s, 5g is good for what a mile and not even through objects?
I’m ok with this. (Don’t call me)
Thank you, thank you! REAL as 1 “Great Fiber-Optic” throat shove by municipalities, boroughs & civic offcls, over a wet-lunch & nation-wide.
That’s because these dingdongs haven’t been getting their covid boosters. Come on guys, we need all the 5G we can get!
That’s was the plan
Haven’t noticed any issues on Verizon. Seems t-mobile people are the most vocal about this issue from the comments.
I didn’t read the article but I’m guessing it has something to do with net neutrality being canceled a few years ago