miyanc
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Its more of a consolidation of resources. each tower is usually independently owned or managed. So what the carriers have to do is rent or buy space/bandwidth or however it is done. So if verizon can put 10 magic beans on the tower and originally all 10 were 3g, things were good for 3g, but then jack wants to add lte, they may get the ability to add more beans, but more likely, because 10 beans was enough they will move some beans to jack. Eventually jack will get all the beans because there is less ans less money in 3g and verizon can get more magic out of us if they can deliver it faster.I'm on Verizon as well and live in a rural area. My closest tower is around 12 miles away which is the fringe for LTE signals. When I moved here in 2009, my 3G signal was passable, around -82dBm outside and -95 to -105dBm inside, so I got a Network Extender in the home. After we had some long term issues with it and I had to go without for awhile, I found that the signal level in our area had dropped. Now outside we get around -95dBm and inside is useless unless your next to a window, and even then keeping a call going is an ordeal. Apparently the switch to LTE has also decreased the signal range for 3G.
Regardless, one of the reasons I'm looking at a Pixel is being able to have WiFi calling in an unlocked device with pure Android and quick updates. I was hoping they'd bring WiFi calling to my 6p, but that isn't going to happen, so it'll either go to someone on our share plan that lives in good signal area other my backup.
unitl Puff comes along and delivers us some lte advanced magic. then we will need to rearrange the beans again.