When inside a large group of people (at a stadium, concert, festival), why does your phones internet data stop working despite having full bars? Why does such a large presence of phones in one area limit every phones’ usability and ability to even simply send a text message?

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When inside a large group of people (at a stadium, concert, festival), why does your phones internet data stop working despite having full bars? Why does such a large presence of phones in one area limit every phones’ usability and ability to even simply send a text message?

In: Technology

Answer 1

Let’s just simplify this.

It’s bandwidth.

What is bandwidth?

You have a pipe.

When two people are pouring water down the pipe it runs well.
When 20,000 people are pouring water down the pipe, water still gets through, at the maximum rate the pipe will allow, but YOUR water may not get through.