What’s happening when your phone is showing four bars but in actuality the data is not working?

Question

What’s happening when your phone is showing four bars but in actuality the data is not working?

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Answer 1

The handset has a clear connection to the cell tower, but for whatever reason it cannot use that to talk to the internet. Maybe the cell tower itself is offline, maybe there’s a misconfiguration on your handset or cellular account, maybe there’s a genuine account issue like a data cap or an unpaid bill.