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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3g is digital its basically all or nothing, slow downs come from a towers bandwidth being over loaded. So likely slow 3g is from the telecoms reducing the bandwidth going to each tower, combined with the far more extreme internet usage requirements software nowadays. Every website is also far larger then they they were in 3g days, most designers don’t pay as much attention to mobile bandwidth like they used to.

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