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

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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.

I haven’t had any problems with phone reception in the European cities I’ve been to in recent years, or in the one I currently live in. I don’t live in the biggest city, but it’s still about as dense as London.

The only problem I have, is that bluetooth headphones drop out pretty often when public transit passes by.

I think my country rates in the top 5 worldwide for mobile internet speeds, though, so maybe we just have a lot more cell towers per person (or rather, fewer people per tower) than what’s normal.

edit: I was wrong, but that’s because most of the top 5 spots are filled by really small but oil-rich countries.

I’m ok with this. (Don’t call me)

That’s was the plan

I’d happily hang out at 3G or 4G speeds if it was reliable… this whole race to super LTE/5000G speeds is a little overkill.

I don’t need to watch a 4k movie on my phone.

all those massive 5G towers everywhere that got installed overnighter are definitely not hybrid Electronic warfare assets. That’s crazy talk.

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.

now that 2g is gone, so is long range radio’s, 5g is good for what a mile and not even through objects?

Haven’t noticed any issues on Verizon. Seems t-mobile people are the most vocal about this issue from the comments.

I wonder if there were some kind of requirement or change at the device level if it would provide any improvement. Like instead of it saying 3/4/5G it just said “X Mb/s” or “connected” (depending on whether you are actively sending/receiving larger amounts of data), so the user could realize “hey, I’m getting less than 1 Mb/s here, so those full bars of 5G signal doesn’t mean shit”.

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