T-Mobile saw Verizon telling people to turn off 5G and thought ‘why stop there’?

T-Mobile is busy rolling out its 5G network, having recently spent billions to expand it, making it Kinda Oddly enough it has even been caught telling users to turn off 5G to save battery life (By Sascha Sagan). Didn’t Veriz make this same gaff just a few days ago? He did it for sure. But, instead of learning from the example, T-Mobile seems to be pulling the hold of MyBear: where Verizon tells users to switch to LTE, many of T-Mobile’s support documents tell users to go. Go back to 2G.

If you don’t know, switching to 2G (which tells you how to do it with a T-Mobile hand) will make your phone useless as a data device, the maximum theoretical speed you get from a 2G connection will be around 1 Mbps (although many 256KBS Comes close to). 1 Mbps is also 25 times slower than the FTC admits broadband speeds, and the average 5G mid-band speed is 300 times slower than bragging through T-Mobile.

(It doesn’t matter that T-Mobile is also in the middle of facing the 2G signal For good, Although the 2G shutdown is reported to have been postponed to 2022.)

Screenshot: Edge

T-Mobile may have realized that this kind of advice isn’t a pretty good look, but the company’s cover-up has also been entertainingly slow. Earlier today, he removed the “5G / LTE to 2G” advice First Example PC Magazine Found (Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G), and another one (Samsung Galaxy S215G) updated its support page before writing these words. Turn off 5G and / or 4G on pages on LG Wing, OnePlus Nord N10 5G, Galaxy S20 + 5G and Pixel 4A 5G (which oddly only mentions 4G shutdown) It didn’t take long to find out. Not 5G). It’s a potentially incomplete list, but you’ll find the picture: T-Mobile’s slow 2G network showed a bunch of tunes.

(Here is the Google Cache version of the first T-Mobile support page from March 1st.)

I would say that T-Mobile is right in a way: turning my phone to 2G will make it so slow that I try to use it, and my phone will probably last longer. If you are struggling with battery life on your phone, there are a lot of things you can try that are not as difficult as tormenting the brakes.