What is the relation between bandwidth and data rate?
The successful symbol rate depends on the channel settling, the phase flatness, etc

RF channels tend to have very steep filtering (at the post-down-conversion frequencies where multipole Intermediate Frequency active filters ) to allow packing lots of channels and lots of users into a few hundred MHZ of spectrum (such as 2.4GHz WiFi).

Thus the precise successful symbol rate depends on 


the interference from adjacent channels, 
reduced phase warping if adjacent channels are UNUSED on purpose to allow moderate IF filtering
the silicon area devoted to IF active filters, where phase-compensation requires MORE opamps and other silicon-area-hogs such as ratiod-capacitors to accurate place the Zeros


If you have a one-pole filter with Tau timeconstant, being a 1-pole allows 6.28 settling Tau in the bandwidth. At 8dB per Tau (a Neper), you have settling to 48dB error flow which allows dense constellations. For a cheap filter.

But one-pole filters prevent dense channel allocation, so are not used.