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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What it means to have internet service is that a cell tower can exchange data with your phone. You can think of this like a pipe that’s sending 1’s and 0’s back and forth with your phone. Each cell tower only has a certain number of pipelines it can handle. If there are too many people in one area the cell tower will have to move pipelines between different people which slows down how fast your data can be exchanged. Think of watering plants. If you only have one plant you can just point the hose there and continually pump water. If you have 1000’s of plants and you’re constantly switching which plant you’re watering each plant will get water slower overall.
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