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EDIT: May help, I should say. Improvement likely depends on your specific venue/towers.
Volunteering at the Travelers Championship and cell service today was unusable once the crowd filled in. At one point my phone switched itself to 4G for a couple minutes, and everything worked all of a sudden until it switched itself back to 5G.
That got my wheels turning. I went through my (Android) phone settings and found an option to disable 5G in Connections > Mobile Networks > uncheck "Allow 5G service." The difference was night and day. Now that just about everyone has a 5G phone, the 4G network is way less congested. Just switch it back at the end of the day.
My friend did the same on his iPhone with the same results. I didn't get the path to the setting but a quick Google says it should be Settings > Cellular > Cellular Data Options (might be your SIM number instead on some iOS versions) > Voice & Data and select LTE.