Proactive increase of bearer quality of service (QoS) in response to prediction that UE will experience reduced-throughput coverage while receiving streaming media

A computing system configured to proactively reconfigure communication to a user equipment device (UE) in anticipation the UE experiencing a transition from being served with dual-connectivity to being served instead with standalone connectivity when the UE is receiving streaming media, the computing system being in a core network and comprising:

• at least one network communication interface;
• at least one processing unit;
• at least one non-transitory data storage;
• and
• program instructions stored in the at least one non-transitory data storage and executable by the at least one processing unit to carry out operations including:
• predicting, when the UE is receiving streaming media, that the UE is going to experience the transition from being served with dual-connectivity to being served instead with standalone connectivity, and
• based at least in part on the predicting, proactively increasing a quality-of-service (QoS) level of a bearer through which the UE is receiving the streaming media, wherein the proactively increasing occurs before the UE experiences the transition from being served with dual-connectivity to being served instead with standalone connectivity so that the QoS level is increased by when the UE experiences the transition from being served with dual-connectivity to being served instead with standalone connectivity.