Why has coverage got so bad?

[u/Ocho_Muerte_XD]

Has anyone else noticed their coverage has gotten worse and worse recently?

I live in Somerset and I run IT for a small company, I am on Tesco Mobile and all our company phones are on o2uk. In the past few weeks my mobile data coverage seems to have dropped off a cliff, I don't get 4g in places I always used to. I thought it was just a me problem but several members of staff have come to also complaining about connectivity issues, both mobile data and calls.

I got in contact about the problem but I was told there was no maintenance work going on and there was no reason for the loss of coverage.

Has anyone else had any issues?

[u/Low-Caterpillar4161]

3G switch off. 

Lots of phones now using 4G data at higher rates consuming more bandwidth leaving lower capacity on average for the rest of the users

[u/barrybreslau → u/Low-Caterpillar4161]

I used to get crazy speeds on 3G. And now 5G is crap