I’ve noticed among myself and my friends that the 3G technology doesn’t work as well as it used to, or not at all. When I say not at all, i mean if our phones drop from 4G to 3G there will be little to no service available. Phone isn’t connected to the interwebs.
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Your phone drops to 3G when there is no 4G reception. So 3G will only be used when the signal is possible to be received correctly but 4G is not.
So it is not that 3G is worthless, it is that the phone only uses it automatically when the reception is very bad and 4G do not work.
If you instead force your phone to use 3G when there is a good signal it works fine. It is likely a lot faster than it was in the past for you because relatively few used is and there is a limited amount of bandwidth per cell.
I have no idea if you can force a iPhone to use 3G but for android it is possible,
On my phone, it “SIM card & mobile data”/click on one of the two sim cards/”Preferred network type” and not you can force it down to 3g/2g or just 2g
On my previous phone, it was under “addition network setting” in the main setting.
Exactly where it depends on the phone.
If you do that 3G works fine because you use it when the reception is good.
The extra speed with 4G and 5G is not primary to increase the speed to an individual user but to increase the amount of data all users in a single cell share. So the network does not slow down when many use it at the same time. If there only was a single user in a cell the bandwidth is enough for normal phone usage.
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