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.
AT&T gave us a cheap replacement phone. You get what you pay for but it works
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!
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.
I have no need for 5G. 4G LTE is fast enough. The CCP and others are already planning for 6G and 7G. Surveillance state here we come! Cash transactions banned here we come! Mark of the beast, here we come!
I can see a future where if you want to communicate in 7G and possess a 7G phone. That you will have to get chipped and you must carry a QR code in your phone (aka Gov’t tracking device) that reveals your medical and Covid-29 vaxxxx status
I’m interested in satellite phones. One guy was on War Room yesterday and it sounded pretty good (Satellite Phone Store). The closest they can be located is 50 miles (IIRC), instead of a few feet with cellular. Other good privacy options.
I know they’ve been around for several years, as my friend took one with him hiking alone in god-forsaken areas of northern California. But with cellular so intrusive, sat phones might take off. Plans are expensive for now, but that could change if people make them popular.
I'm wondering if my Samsung Watch 3 will be impacted. I have the 4G LTE model. I can only wear it intermittently. The fancy sensors for SP02 and pulse cause a 2nd degree burn on my skin directly below the sensor window. Lots of other owners complained about the same issue. Samsung called my watch back for 5 weeks. I spent hours on the phone trying to either get a refund or have my property returned. They claimed to have performed some "repair". It was returned. No change in behavior. Disappointing. It's a great watch.
Just last weekend I was helping my 89 year old father in law who has a flip phone. He has Tracfone service where you add minutes and days of service. His phone could not add days because Tracfone was dropping the service on March 22. He hda to but a new phone. It was a cheap smartphone for $15.
Our 2016 volvo uses a 3G modem for convenience functions. Volvo says there will be a limited number of upgrade modems available(?). Dealer gives us a different answer as to what to do each time.
“But PNM executives say the problems it is facing this summer and next year could have been avoided if the PRC had accepted PNM requests to expedite replacement power approvals.”
Hard to feel sorry for a state that relies on the PRC for approval to do things. This is AMERICA and there is no reason for having China in the decision loop.
I was in the flight path of an airplane releasing chem-trails and I was using my new 5G phone at the time.
I now got super powers.