Like last month I noticed I only get LTE, even though my plan is 5g. Few months ago everywhere I went it would be 5g, but now only LTE
Any explanation for this other than 5G or rural? Or is that it? There’s none in the article.
*in the U.S.A
and UK, london reception is fucking awful
In OZ, signal is very good, with black spots all over the country, but these have been there since CDMA was abandoned.
Oh please, telecoms being greedy is universal. This also isn’t as much of a self-deprecatory comment as you think it is. Oh, my poor country is so full of phones and tablets we can’t keep up :(
Same here in the UK. I get full bars but shit speed in city centres.
To be honest I haven’t experienced this at all. It’s only gotten slowly better every year since I got my first phone over 20 years ago.
AT&T has been great for me (in Jonesboro, AR). They’ve a decent low-band 5G network and are rolling out their midband network, whereas Verizon is still all congested LTE here. T-Mobile is hit and miss, great speeds, but so-so coverage.
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Not surprising. 5G has less range than 4G, which had less range than 3G, etc. National carriers have been updating equipment on their existing towers, but haven’t been erecting new ones. They don’t want to pay for it.
Not exactly true. 700MHz LTE actually had better range than 850MHz 3G, which is the lowest frequency that 3G used across any carrier. All of the carriers now have 850MHz 5G, and T-Mobile has 600MHz 5G which reaches even further.
The network tech used doesn’t determine the range of the signal, only the frequency does. The difference is that low-band signals are so overloaded now which causes their range to significantly decrease
My favorite thing of recent memory was I went to a Chiefs preseason game where the stadium was only half full. T-Mobile had all these banners up about “Data Strong” and all this bullshit, but I couldn’t make a call or send a text with that company.
T-Mobile, y’all fucking suck.
now that 2g is gone, so is long range radio’s, 5g is good for what a mile and not even through objects?
I’m ok with this. (Don’t call me)
That’s was the plan
Haven’t noticed any issues on Verizon. Seems t-mobile people are the most vocal about this issue from the comments.
I’m supposes to be on 5g and I live in a perfectly sized city… but I always harmve 1 or 2 bars - if I’m lucky. Shit’s infuriating.
Definitely agree with this. It’s been harder finding a no-interference spot lately.
It feels like 5g has to been line of sight sometimes. You go in a room without a window and suddenly you’re on lte or lower
The death of 3G killed phone reception here in Michigan, get out of a few larger cities and it can get pretty spotty. 4G was never fully developed and now has to carry all the voice traffic 3G used to carry. Town I work near no longer has reliable T-Mobile (old Sprint) reception through most of it since 2022.