I don't know about you, but occasionally some location services on my or my family phones say that we are in another city. I think that happens based on IP and that IP probably is in another city, latency comes from providers tunneling all that traffic to their centers first, probably for many legitimate reasons, not just on a whim. 5G is supposed to solve that, at least that's my understanding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPRS_Tunnelling_Protocol

https://techmonitor.ai/techonology/cybersecurity/gtp-protoco...