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?

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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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So there is kind of two things going on.

First 3G is not really ganna get better but worse, comoanies are focusing on investing in 4G and 5G. So you get both less towers and spectrum, potentially shrinking amounts. You also have more people using it then when it was new, basically like a new highway people haven’t started using yet to get to where they want to go, but as time goes on more people discover it saves them time and it gets slower due to traffic.

Second is 3G has a major downside compared to 4G and 5G that people will notice is latency. 4G is much faster at sending and receiving data, from the actual tower, making it just always feel snappier for short burst type traffic like web pages, and images on social media apps. So if your used to something like that the old stuff will just feel slow.

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