• shifty_coder@alien.topB
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    11 months ago

    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.

    • jimgeosmail@alien.topB
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      11 months ago

      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