T-Mobile is forcing you to use 5G and shutting down 2G
(9to5google.com)
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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.
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.