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

Most websites haven’t changed that much, especially Google. There’s just not that much 3G infrastructure available. In the US, 3G is mostly gone, so what you might be getting is the 2G fallback that’s there for legacy devices, and probably will be for a long time.