T-Mobile is forcing you to use 5G and shutting down 2G
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What is the significance of this? Sell me on your theory, I don't have one
You won't be able to use any device except LTE and 5G phones. No more Nokia, flip phones, etc.
oof
I didn't realise that. I thought 5G is about new mobile internet standard and it doesn't affect how you call or text people. Will older phones really stop working at all? This is the first time I hear about it, big oof indeed
Yes. 2G, 3G and early 4G will be completely unusable in the USA. All old phones will effectively be unusable. (unless a new carrier comes along)
No. There are plenty of flip phones that use volte. And nokia bar phone also does. Tell tmobile even sells a home style bar phone that uses 4g. If this concerns you please go 5o back to you 56k modem and dial-up.
No. The only flip phones you can get anymore are those crappy boomer phones with huge buttons and no other functionality.
Also Nokia only mentions 2G on their website: https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int/nokia-3310
This is to force you to buy Cuckerberg and CCP infected 5G smartphones so they can harvest your data and track you if you protest, among other things.
New smartphones are also all ugly huge slabs of glass.
No. Look right on tmobile site. 4g bars and flips, and home phone bar style. Go prepaid and you could pay phones. Nokia offers several non-smart "feature" phones. Flip right there on 4g.. https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int/feature-phones?connectivities[]=4G Don't down vote me because your wrong. The one phone you linked to is 2g. Hundreds of others aren't. 3310 has a 4g version... https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_in/support/nokia-3310-4g-user-guide/
And tmobile even lots a 4g flipper. https://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone/alcatel-go-flip-3?sku=610214661463
Stupid shit for old people...
T-Mobile also blocks links to thedonald
I work for a cell company. It doesn’t make sense to run 3 networks. Financially it’s in the best interest of the company. I’d say maybe 3-5% of the customers I deal with use CDMA / 2g devices. Antiquated technology.
Stop being a globalist cuck and let us use what we want. Or sell your 2G towers to someone else.
You gonna pay for the towers? I’m the farthest thing from a globalist.
Clearly it’s hard for you to understand finance.
2g GSM is very primitive technology compared to LTE. I imagine that a big benefit of phasing it out is to be able to reallocate the radio spectrum to LTE. It should be a net improvement for everyone, the only downside being the lack of support with old devices. Seriously, LTE can handle many orders of magnitude more data and individual devices than GSM for the same amount of spectrum. It's analogous to when analog cell phones were deprecated.
Why is the spectrum controlled by three mega-corporations?
Because spectrum is auctioned to the highest bidder by the FCC. This isn’t a secret.
Any given frequency band needs to have a clear owner so that it can be used effectively. Otherwise, you'd have a bunch of uncoordinated users transmitting over each other, and it would suck for everyone. Why is there three mega corporations rather than lots of smaller companies? Probably a combination of the large capital expense of building out infrastructure, and politics? Also, it's tricky to geographically partition radio spectrum without wasting it, i.e. give two different companies permission to use the same frequency in neighboring areas.
Radio waves are a magical gift to humanity, and there's a clear benefit to society managing the spectrum reasonably. I'm not claiming that that's currently the case or not, just that GSM is an old technology that is relatively wasteful of the radio spectrum it uses, and the same radio spectrum can be used much more effectively with more modern technology.
There is no 5g in some states
Keep it that way. Call our legislators at convince them a 2G backbone is necessary for basic emergency systems and old phones.
Shills are out in full force today.
How hard is it to build a 5G transmitter that transmits white noise on multiple freqs? Or randomly switches freqs every 2-5 secs? In minecraft, I mean.
In minecraft, one could build a handful and just leave them places. Fuck 5G. In minecraft.
A Software Designed Radio (SDR) could be programmed to do the trick in Minecraft.
I switched to T-Mobile because AT&T shut it down, now T-Mobile's new soycuck CEO is shutting it down too.
They are not forcing you to do anything.
Straight talk has a basic flip phone for $30
And what will happen to the thousands of 2G phones still in use?
Of course they do. Microsoft wants you to use windows 10 instead of windows 3.1 too.
2g is old, it is harder to operate in every way. Its harder to bill customers using it, you can't provision new cells as quickly, you can't virtualize its back end elements... its inferior in every way. Robocalling can't be squashed on 2g and the skaken act will fine operators with 2g networks.
I could list about 500 more reasons why but im sure half you 5g tards won't listen to me