Reply to post: Re: Here is our shiny new 5G - Don't use it!

First Verizon, now T-Mobile: US carrier suggests folks use 2G to save battery

Roland6 Silver badge

Re: Here is our shiny new 5G - Don't use it!

> I doubt most phones have much time when they need a keep alive.

You raise an interesting point wrt Facebook, Google, Twitter etc, if things were okay on 4G but are not on 5G, that could mean a problem with the (5G) network in that the network is requiring phones to do more to run these background data polls/collections that they needed to with 3G and 4G.

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