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?

Question

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

Think of bars as lanes on a highway. 5 bars = 5 lanes open. 1 bar = 1 lane open.

Now, during rush hour even when 5 lanes are open, traffic is usually at a standstill. Same with data, it’s a data-jam basically.