shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipM to T-Mobile Unofficial Community@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months agoT-Mobile Is About to Shut down Its 2G Networkwww.howtogeek.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up141arrow-down10
arrow-up141arrow-down1external-linkT-Mobile Is About to Shut down Its 2G Networkwww.howtogeek.comshortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipM to T-Mobile Unofficial Community@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squareHubertManne@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoThe article does not say for sure but it mentions some cars lost connection when 3G was stopped. Funny that 3 happened before 2 for them.
minus-squareCort@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months ago3g had a lot more channels they could repurpose for 4g/5g. They’re only running 2g on a single channel so there wasn’t a big reason to shut it down. At least with t Mobile anyway
minus-squareHubertManne@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agothat makes sense. May have cost more to end than any value it gets them.
The article does not say for sure but it mentions some cars lost connection when 3G was stopped. Funny that 3 happened before 2 for them.
3g had a lot more channels they could repurpose for 4g/5g. They’re only running 2g on a single channel so there wasn’t a big reason to shut it down. At least with t Mobile anyway
that makes sense. May have cost more to end than any value it gets them.