3G twelve years ago was fast. Today if you get a full 3G reception you can barely load Google’s landing page. Why’s that?

Question

I just feel like they renamed 4G into 5G, 3G into 4G and Edge into 3G.
Jokes aside, I know the overall amount of data to load today per website/video/images is way heavier than before, but still. A simple Google search doesn’t require much more to load than 12 years ago.

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Answer 1

Induced demand. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand

When the median of usage increases, the supply settles close to long-time average.

This is also why you don’t solve rush hour by building roads. It just leads to more people using roads, leading to rush hour returning.