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

Answer: as 4G and 5G networks and devices have become more widespread, infrastructure for 3G is being removed or doesn’t receive the resources needed to function at the levels it did during its heyday.