I remember reading once that the cell companies lie in the US. I mean lie lie lie. Even when the signal isn't very good, they display 5G and all the bars. I've never looked into it, but that does kind of match my experience. I'll only have one bar in Japan and have this super fast, instant load on anything, then in the States I can have four bars and nothing loads.
Someday I hope for some regulation in the US to control these phone companies and make them actually serve the people instead of the shareholders while screwing the people, but I don't expect that day anytime soon.
In Japan we are down to three phone companies, so it is getting to the US level. But at least right now they still mostly follow gov regulations and provide pretty good service (but not as good as in South Korea, I read)
Very interesting. I had never heard that before, but I wouldn't doubt it at all! They are going to do whatever they can to keep the money coming into their pockets. I'd almost rather they crack down on the cable companies first though, then tackle the cellular carriers.