Exact same issues here. My data speeds almost always stay sub 1.0 mbps. Like, as low as 0.05 mbps. I'll even get speeds registering in the sub 100 kb/s range. That's 90's dial up speeds...in 2020. I almost never have more than 1 bar at any given time. That is if I'm receiving a Lte4g signal at all. It's constantly spontaneously switching into 3g, and a lot of the time, into 1x signal. I've even went periods of a No Service signal. It's even more pathetic when I live less than a mile from my nearest local tower. I live in a more rural town, so, at any given time of the day, I'm usually within 3.5 miles of said tower. So my signal shouldn't be that weak. My job doesn't always have me available to wifi or wifi hotspots, and i don't have a land line phone, so I depend on the unlimited plan for my phones service.
Can't make or receive calls most of the time. And, if I do, they're staticy or they get dropped. I'll receive texts and emails hours, and even a day, later than when they were sent to me. Texts/email can take forever to send, if they don't time out instead.
According to cellmapper.net, if its correct, which according to anecdotal evidence it is, my local towers signal strength and range is far, far less that the top competitive companies. So, why such the discrepancy?
Verizon might have had the strongest signal and most coverage at one point a decade ago, but it's obvious they've been surpassed in that time and haven't bothered to keep up.
