LTE was touted as the fastest data connection when it was released in the US back in 2008 (as I recall)…but is now just about useless on some of the same sites in 2024.
Is it that they’re sun setting the technology and there’s not as much bandwidth available? Or, have modern websites bumped up their need for resources that much that LTE is no longer fast enough to power them?
It seems like a simple Google search on LTE is just about unusable. Even Craigslist, which doesn’t seem to have changed much in the past 20 years, barely loads.
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My original comment was too eli5 so it was auto deleted so I’ll write more words.
Cellular is several big businesses all working towards a common cause. Have a monthly plan and upgrade your phone often. So it’s good for the people making money to always have new shiny things that work better and faster. It’s better for phone manufacturing to have better technology to offer customers that previous generations can’t access. It’s better to be able to offer a better, exclusive product.
Mostly, it’s more profitable to focus support on new than maintain older things longer. By not upgrading old tech to work at the same level, it helps the company make more money today.
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