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Originally Posted by chemist View Post
Example: you are somewhere with CDMA (HSPA) and you provider decided to use at the train-station another radio-station type as downtown (because of the amount of people or something) it could happen you drop connection and reconnect while entering to its radio zone, maybe you get more speed, maybe the provider gets more channels (users).
Yes, I've noticed that happening.

It is a good reason why modern applications should use robust protocols which can tolerate change of IP address and dropped TCP connections, without breaking the application's connection.