Eli5: why can’t phones use cellular and WiFi at the same time to load things faster?

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I was watching something on my phone and turned off my WiFi so that cellular data could load it instead (which was quicker at the time). But if it can use both separately then why can’t my phone do both at once and load things faster?

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It would be difficult to get it faster because the different networks have different speeds and response times. So maybe you try half and half but the WiFi packets finish before the cellular packets even start to arrive and so you just have to wait.

Also almost no one will want to use up all their cell plan data if they have a perfectly good WiFi connection on hand so almost no one would use this feature.

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