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Re:LTE Has Slowed by 50% in the US This Year by dboreham on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @03:00PM (#12746662)
Because that would be a bad idea.
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Re:LTE Has Slowed by 50% in the US This Year by mschuster91 on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @03:08PM (#12746742)
Why? The phone is idle 90% of the day and thus doesn't need high-bandwidth data in my pocket. In foreground any app could request high-bandwidth data - or, why not, high-bandwidth data while the screen is on and low-bandwidth when the device is in sleep mode.
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Re:LTE Has Slowed by 50% in the US This Year by DiabloD3 on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @04:11PM (#12747276)
Because with higher speeds, it returns to idle faster.

2G is also far less power efficient per byte.

The most efficient phone using today's technology would be a category 10 or higher LTE modem /w no 2/3G modems at all. Radio is on for a very short time, then switches back off.

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Re:LTE Has Slowed by 50% in the US This Year by ryao on Thursday October 20, 2016 @03:43PM (#12755449)
Things have increased in speed so much that if power usage scaled linearly with capacity, using LTE would drain your battery in less than a second. Since they did not scale linearly, you are better off going faster. See "race to idle".
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