return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoT-Mobile imposes $5 monthly price hike on customers using older plansarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10
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minus-squareozymandias117@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months ago pack our plans with value and build out the industry’s best 5G network I’ve generally needed to disable 5G on their network because it was slower than LTE. 5G has only been useful in places they didn’t have coverage before in my experience
minus-squareu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoIsn’t that usually what happens though? 5G is the new best thing, people jump on 5G, 5G gets overloaded decreasing its speeds while 4G gets unloaded increasing its speeds. Same thing it was with 4G, which is why I kept using 3G until start of 2024 when it got shut down here.
I’ve generally needed to disable 5G on their network because it was slower than LTE. 5G has only been useful in places they didn’t have coverage before in my experience
Isn’t that usually what happens though?
5G is the new best thing, people jump on 5G, 5G gets overloaded decreasing its speeds while 4G gets unloaded increasing its speeds.
Same thing it was with 4G, which is why I kept using 3G until start of 2024 when it got shut down here.