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Originally Posted by order99
My cellphone is a 16-year-old Motorola, and I did buy that one new because it was the only way to get service back then in my region-but I have not upgraded and will not upgrade until the 3G signal is no longer supported (and since 5G takes infinite repeaters every friggen' mile and 4G is compatible with 3G it's going to be a looong time). I changed the batteries 6 years ago.  |
Verizon shut down their 3G network last night.
My father and father-in-law had to give up their old phones and find new ones. My father tried 2 LG flip phones that both failed within 1 week before agreeing to use my wife's old iPhone SE. I took off every app except the calculator and phone - he is doing fine with it. My father-in-law refused to use my sister-in-law's old smartphone so he bought the same $90 LG flip phone that failed on my dad twice
AT&T is shutting down their 3G network in "early 2022".
Both are moving to VoLTE for all of their voice calls so LTE is a requirement.