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March 5, 2021 12:11 am
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/4/22314138/t-mobile-turn-off-5g-for-2g-support-documents-battery-savings
T-Mobile saw Verizon telling people to turn off 5G andthought why stop there
T-Mobile has been busy hawking its 5G network, recently spending many additional billions to expand it, which makes it kinda awkward that it’s also been caught telling users to turn off 5G to save battery life (via Sascha Segan). Didn’t Verizon just make this same gaff mere days ago? It sure did. But instead of learning from the example, T-Mobile appears to have pulled a hold-my-beer: where Verizon told users to switch to LTE, many of T-Mobile’s support documents tell users to go all the way back to 2G.
In case you’re not aware, switching to 2G (which T-Mobile handily tells you how to do) will make your phone next to useless as a data device: the maximum theoretical speed you could get from a 2G connection would be around 1Mbps (though...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/4/22314138/t-mobile-turn-off-5g-for-2g-support-documents-battery-savings
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