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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A simple google search does require much more data then befor especialy on a smartphone. 12 years ago goolge knew that you dont get much up/down speed and probably didnt have a large data limit so they made the search as light weight as possible. Nowadays they dont realy care anymore and they care to get as much data from you as possible, this takes up most of the needed data. Another point is 3g was upgraded to 4g nearly everywhere so if you get to an area that has very low priority for fast internet (otherwise it would have been upgraded). So it says 3g but you probably didnt get the maximum speed that is possible with 3g anyway.

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