These service disruptions are so a lot of retards in the city can stare at their cell phones watching TikTok all day on 5G.
You would think that life-line contracts could’ve should’ve been drafted to prevent total disconnect
Not to mention a million or two Tracfone users who are being forced to buy new phones, even though their old ones work perfectly well.
I just got forced to “upgrade” my satellite internet modem, too. $350 that I can ill afford. And despite the claims, the service is no faster than it was.
Where are the Benevolent Federal agencies like the FCC when you need them? Shut up honkey, and pay your taxes!
This will bring about the return of the landline as a backup or even primary telephone whereas many had those shut down - not a bad thing, IMHO. Network disruptions can occur and if there are not landlines you will be a sitting duck.
Thanks for posting this. I’ve got a 3G phone, and my carrier had been warning me that I will soon lose service. I thought this was a bluff to get me to buy a new phone. I guess it’s no bluff.
Used to be we said, the hardware drives the software.
Now I’m not sure if the hardware is driving the software, or the hardware is driving the hardware.
No excuses for emergency services, they knew, but did not prioritize correctly.
3g in my area got flaky a few years ago.
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True story:
AT&T notified me (by mail) that the 3G network would be shut down this Feb. Fair enough.
Then I was stranded on the side of the road and tried to use my mobile phone for help. Guess what? My call was re-routed to their customer service center. I tried again, same deal. The recording said it was “mandatory” to talk to me before they would allow me to dial out again. So I waited for 20 minutes before a rep picked up.
When he finally did, he asked me for my account password, which I did not know because I was in my car. Then he said he could not help me. At that point, I started calling him (and AT&T) every name in the book and told them I needed HELP to get my car fixed and back home. After several minutes of that, he graciously let me use the phone (that I had paid for) for another day until I called him back.
After I got home, I threw my AT&T phone in the trash and switched to another carrier.
Elon Musk’s Satellite Internet will hopefully reach a lot of areas that 3G, 4G, and 5G don’t.
But on the Apple side, any Apple phone 6 and above will handle the 5G crossover.
I personally have a newer android which will work on the 5G network.
Guess I will go back to landline and to hell with the cell phone.
Millions of phones and devices to be thrown out for no good reason. All having to be replaced. How good is that for the environment? Hypocrites.
Hmmm, I better take a look at the wife’s iPad. It’s getting long in the tooth.
Meanwhile, our phones are jammed with more needless “second verification” texts where commerce stops until you acknowledge the text. Go figger.
I don’t know what’s in the article, I’m not going to read it, but here is what Verizon plans to do regarding turning down 3G:
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By December 31st, 2022, Verizon Wireless plans to retire their 2G and 3G CDMA networks in favor of 4G LTE and 5G NR.
Customers with CDMA-only devices (as well as older 4G LTE that do not support HD Voice) will be required to upgrade their devices by the shutoff date.
Verizon stopped activating CDMA-only devices on their network in 2018, and had previously planned to shut down 3G service in 2019, but extended the timeline for shutting down the 3G network twice — first to December 31st, 2020, and then to December 31, 2022, which the VP of Network Engineering says “will not be extended again.”
The company indicated the delays were in an effort to “minimize disruptions” to its customers still utilizing the 3G network.
Less than 1% of Verizon’s customers were still using 3G, as of March 2021, and many of the 3G-connected devices are integrated devices, such as smart utility meters and home burglar alarms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_over_LTE