Posted on 02/11/2022 5:55:40 AM PST by Red Badger
PinG!................
This is only pushing too many people into far more expensive phones. Upgrades not available for most cheaper phones.
I would hope that if they don’t reach a certain threshold, a carrier cannot turn off 911 and 3G. Time will tell.
I and the wife for one won’t do a thing until it stops working. Nothing out there inexpensive anymore.
My wife has a 2016 Jeep Cherokee that uses 3G for OTA services. It will go dark, but I don’t think we use any of the 3G services anyway. At least we don’t pay for them.
Planned obsolescence. So those old cell phones that they used to give to women and elderly for emergency calls, they will no longer work.
Interesting..
Do older cars/ boats use 3G for their GPS/ Nav systems?
The 5G move is really only for Big Tech profit. Almost no one will get faster service, in fact the rural customers are getting screwed as stuff is shutdown.
AT&T gave us a cheap replacement phone. You get what you pay for but it works
T-Mobile/Sprint tech dept told me yesterday that big changes were coming by June 1. Didn’t go into great detail but said changes were coming soon.
I recently upgraded my and my wife’s iPhones to 5G phones. I had an iPhone 7 and she had a 6-S. They were just eligible for a trade-in if we switched from T-Mobile to ATT. Mine qualified for an iPhone 13 and hers for an iPhone 12. It was not an even swap, but the trade-in covered a lot of the expense. We are not phone nuts and usually use one until it wears out or won’t run current apps. Because of the coming push to 5G I wanted to upgrade while our old phones were still tradeable.
I kept my old phones charged as emergency 911 devices. Oh well
On a sort of related subject, the wife hangs on to her cell phones for a long time. Back in the day we got a letter from at&t saying we’d have to upgrade her phone by a certain date because they were turning off ANALOG services. Like I said it was back in the day.
When we went to the phone store we told the kid in the store what was happening. When we showed him the analog phone he says “Wow I’ve heard about these but never actually seen one” kinda like it was an artifact from prehistoric time. Then he called all the other employees out of the back room to check it out and they they were amazed......it was hilarious. Lol!
Yep, I’m involved with this at my company. In process of doing it.
Doubles as a weapon and in a pinch you can use it to drive nails.
Probably require you to get vaxxed to make calls.
ATT advised me two years ago to get a new I phone Because they would no longer be supporting 3G.
Way back in the day I worked at Motorola when they were rolling out the very first commercially deployed CDMA system which was I guess 2.5G?.
Still basically all the same basic principles (all kinds of different frequencies change the deployment strategies for individual systems) with lots of marketing terms blended in and the backend messaging changed around to get data speeds up.
Yep that’s kinda how it was....sheer amazement.
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