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.
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.
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.
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.
Flagstaff cell service has been basically unusable downtown for at least the last five or six years.