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

Its about frequency bands, since lte can make better use and fit more traffic thanks to better/ complex modulations(thus why early lte chips were more power hungry). More operators strart repurpose these bands away from 3g into lte, leaving for 3g bare minimum band which usually only good for voice or very limited amount of bandwitdth.
Plus like many other said, pages grown more since then and there lot background loading