I assume you are not in the US, since most 2.5g/3g towers have been shut down;
the reason could be bloated client, heavy 3rd party tracking; probably request timeouts might have been tuned to reflect 4g/5g latency/responses to ensure efficient server resource usage.
there is not much you can do with 200kbps these days.
did you try text.npr.org or lite.cnn.com;
I assume you are not in the US, since most 2.5g/3g towers have been shut down;
the reason could be bloated client, heavy 3rd party tracking; probably request timeouts might have been tuned to reflect 4g/5g latency/responses to ensure efficient server resource usage.
there is not much you can do with 200kbps these days.