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The short answer for people who aren't interested in going deeper: Bluetooth uses a heavily congested slice of frequency, depends on several different proprietary technologies, and different devices have different additions on top of it all. (Image credit: Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central)Companies like Intel, Apple, Qualcomm, and other tech conglomerates have built useful additions that make Bluetooth better, more reliable, and even faster on the same frequency because of improved compression. (Image credit: Source: Joe Maring / Android Central)The biggest offenders when it comes to Bluetooth network interference are (believe it or not) microwave ovens and old cordless landline telephones.

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