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Is 3 Stopping Phones To Fallback On 3G In 3G Only Areas?

jmngonline

ULTIMATE Member
In the past few months my phone started to hang on to extremely low 4G signal whilst in an area that is served by a 3G only mast. Before, my phone would fallback on 3G once 4G reaches a low enough dBM (maybe 120+ to trigger fallback) in a 3G only area but now mine and others devices will always stay on any sort of 4G signal in a 3G only area.

The only exception is that when there is no 4G coverage at all (in areas such as Goathland, not a sight of 4G) so your phone will have no choice but to fallback to 3G.

Is 3 doing this to make us get used to their 4G/5G only coverage?

My phone is on 2G/3G/4G/5G auto select setting.
 
It’s always done this for me in area where 3G only mast remains. EE have now turned off their service so I assume 3G will go soon too.

Personally I think this is a **** poor solution as it will just result in unusable data when it becomes the default and also will kill battery life.
 
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Noticed it recently myself. All of our 4G masts have had 3G switched off but there is a small town locally that has a 3G only mast. In this area 3G is ignored and served by a mast 2 miles away.
 
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