Stephen Sprunk writes:


Even ancient 2G systems could do 9.6kbit/s, and 2.5G could do
56-115kbit/s (GPRS) or 237kbit/s (EDGE).

For any of those to drop to "a few bytes per second" would require
signal conditions so bad that the connection would fail.

The signal could be fine, the problem could be the backhaul.

BTW there is very little EDGE in the UK. It was only introduced by the networks
which had the original non-3G iPhone (Orange and O2).

Phil