Why Cell Phone Reception Is Getting Worse
time.com
You aren't crazy—your cell phone service is probably getting worse, primarily because of overcrowded frequency spectrums.
  • Downvote_me_so_hard@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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

  • Burpreallyloud@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    And this is why I will never get rid of my land line. Emergency use.

    I called them up one day and told them I wanted to cancel a service that has been in the family for over four generations, 100+ years and four changes to the name of the service provider from city owned to government owned back to city owned and now privately owned. When they looked it up they offered me the same services I have now for &10 a month in perpetuity. I took it.

  • delebojr@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    AT&T has been great for me. I did a speed test outside the other day and I got a gigabit down.

    It used to be 30 tops so I’d call that an improvement.

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    10 months ago

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  • Stingray88@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

  • HotHamBoy@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I can’t get a good signal in half of my town on T-Mobile

    Bloomington, Indiana!

  • TheBigFeIIa@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

  • drgr33nthmb@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Our phones are prioritizing sending data out to all the organizations that collect our data. The background usage of a lot of big apps like Reddit and Meta ones is unreal. Gotta get that targeted ad information out as quick as possible.

  • aj801@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    No lie, having T-Mobile in Austin and going to the surrounding areas sucks!

    • DDWWAA@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      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 :(

    • vinags@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      In OZ, signal is very good, with black spots all over the country, but these have been there since CDMA was abandoned.

  • SacredGray@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Definitely agree with this. It’s been harder finding a no-interference spot lately.

    • cainisdelta@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      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

    • hulminator@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Multiple places in greater london I don’t get signal. Don’t even speak of wandering further afield to backwaters like Essex

  • Pirat@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I live in rural area. If my DSL internet went out, I used to be able to hotspot to my phone and continue basic internet surfing. As of a few years ago, that isn’t possible anymore. I don’t get enough signal to even text reliably.

    • Aurum555@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I can only sms text from my home, mms does not work unless it’s the right time of day and I’m in one of two locations in my house and mercury is in retrograde while. Jupiter is in the fifth house while the fatted lamb is to be slaughtered, then I might be able to send or exeice a handful of mms before my shit goes to hell again and baphomet steals my first born. Luckily wifi calling exists or I’d have to actually pay for a landline

    • trojan25nz@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I think internet has so much more shit on it to load now so it needs more signal just to get something basic loaded