Cell Phone Carriers Might Throttle Your 4G Speed, Drive You Towards Expensive 5G Plans

There're several internal documents on the internet showing phone carriers purposely throttle down the 4G speed, not in Australia, hopefully this won't happen here.

The document also provide prepared answers for the customer representatives when the customers report for slow network speed, like the network is undergoing some upgrade or optimization and will take some time. If you make complaint further, they would tell the customer it is due to the peak time, everyone is on the phone. If you do the third time, they could let you go to the store etc etc.

And in Australia my Telstra 4G+ speed has never go over 100 Mbps / 35 Mbps, in theory it could easily do 160~190 / 75.
And at evening peak time it is only about 40 / 2.7 Mbps

With 5G I guess you are getting something like 220 Mbps for most of the time, a little faster than a 4G+ can actually do. I'd be surprise they let you get 650Mbps

Comments

  • You never obtain max speed because your are sharing with others and there are physical factors like location and whats in your way affecting signal strength and losses.

    • That's right, at other carrier I do get 170 Mbps down 75 Up sometime ago

    • half of 5g is still a lot

  • +10

    mobile phones carriers use this one simple trick and users hate them!

    • too many clickbait headlines huh?

  • +3

    "There're several internal documents on the internet showing…" How about a few links?

  • +2

    Jokes on them, I only have 5gb a month anyway and just get shaped to 1.5mbps, with telstras new monthly plans. How funny will it be to browse internet at 1.5mbps on a $2,000 5G device and network.

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