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Re:The first minute of every phone call is torture now by dont__panic on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @02:38PM (#33440828)
I spend a lot of time outdoors hiking and biking. Since 2019, I have noticed a serious stagnation -- and possibly degradation -- of phone reception. Used to be, I could send a text and call someone on even 1 bar of EDGE. Now I basically need >2 bars of LTE to do anything -- less than that and my phone isn't usable.

Maybe I need to pick up a 5G device. I am still using an LTE phone from 2016, so there could be some bands I'm missing out on. But my partner's much more recent phone has even more issues.

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Re:The first minute of every phone call is torture now by mmcnl on Thursday November 03, 2022 @06:10PM (#33458545)
On my first iPhone, I could get train information on my phone with a 1 bar EDGE connection in a few seconds. Totally impossible in 2022, you indeed need a relatively decent LTE connection. I suspect this has to do with increased congestion on the cell towers.
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