5G is not yet popular, so why are 4G phones now starting to have their speed limited?

I don’t know since when, but it feels like the current 4G network is no longer as fast as it was back then! Haonan often opens web pages very slowly under 4G, and it often takes several seconds to load information.

Although the iPhone XR uses Intel's baseband, it doesn't often show that there is a network, but the network speed is zero. This inevitably makes people wonder whether the 4G network speed has been reduced by the operator?

Many friends who are still using 4G mobile phones are worried about the current network speed problem. They are gradually abandoned by operators and finally have to use 5G packages. It has to be said that if the speed is reduced, it will indeed promote user upgrades!

Especially now that 5G packages are basically more than 100 yuan a month! Although the three operators have denied the behavior of reducing speed in different occasions and time periods, we can still feel from our lives that the speed is really not as good as before.

According to online statistics, there are currently 5.51 million 4G base stations in my country, and it is expected that 600,000 5G base stations will be deployed by the end of 2020. There is still a certain gap compared to 4G. It can be said that the number of 5G base stations is far from enough, so the NSA mode needs to be continued for a period of time.

Friends who follow technology know that the so-called NAS is to transform the original 4G base station into a 5G base station. The so-called non-independent networking mode occupies the core resources of the 4G base station, which will inevitably affect the current 4G network situation. We need to wait for operators to build the SA independent networking mode so that 5G will not occupy 4G resources.

Think about it another way. If the three major telecom operators do not lower the prices of their packages in the domestic market currently occupied by the government, users will have to pay out of their own pockets to replace their 5G phones and packages, which may lead to a crisis of trust among users. We only hope that the operators can complete the construction of 5G base stations as soon as possible and launch more cost-effective 5G packages.

So if you are still using a 4G package, do you feel that the speed has slowed down?