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>Most people are blissfully unaware of how much radio chatter and constant adjustment is actually holding up their browsing session from second to second, with the UE negotiating the best possible terms (power, throughput, etc.) with adjacent cell towers before it decides (or is prompted) to hand-over to a new cell.

My experience in my networking class in college and how complex even a TCP/IP connection is over a reliable wired connection was enough to make me run screaming from the field as a profession.

The fact that I can get 200/mbit on my phone today still astounds me.

It's an interesting, but even to me an intimidating field.



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