eli5 Why does cell phone service sometime get worse in areas with more people?

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We went to Disney World and my phone showed that I had full bars of 5 G and nothing would load. I’ve heard that it has something to do with the amount of people in the area but that doesn’t make sense to me. Can you please help me understand?

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When you are drinking a drink through a straw only a little bit of the drink gets through at a time. Get a bigger straw more drink gets through at a time. Get a bigger drink and it takes longer to drink it all through the straw. Cellular networks are the straw. The people on their phones are the drink. The networks can only handle so much traffic at once before they get bogged down making it slow for everyone.

Even though you have 5 bars that’s just the strength of the connection. Like the drink knows there is a straw but still has to wait for its turn to go through it.

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