#Australian 3g shutdown

[jodjuya]

5 days to go until the Telstra 3g shutdown.

I have a replacement phone standing by, yet am still stubbornly playing chicken by using my existing phone right up until the very end.

Got another set of messages from my provider, Exetel, this afternoon. Their final warning of the impending shutdown.

Nothing in there about my phone being proactively banned from the network, only that it has been identified as incompatible, and that if it doesn't have VoLTE compatibility, "it will not be able to make voice calls on our network"

So I'm holding onto the tiniest glimmer of hope that they won't be doing full on approved-devices-only whitelisting after the shutdown, like the other major telcos have on the cards, but maybe this is simply slapdash messaging on their part and I will get booted in five days regardless of my phone actually connecting with VoLTE. Bloody nerve-wracking and it shouldn't be. Christ this is one hell of a mishandled kerfuffle.

Their SMS is a lot more direct about things though. No hedging qualifiers there, just NO CALLS FOR YOU!

[ultramaga]

I have a 4G phone. Until recently, the phone company - Telstra - didn't have a problem with that. Then I received a text message telling me that they were blocking me, because I don't have a VOLTE phone. Despite them advertising that they were 'upgrading' to 4G only - i.e. LTE. So what's the difference? I live in a remote area, with poor coverage. VOLTE is more vulnerable to disruption, but is a lot cheaper for phone companies to run. It's worse for customers, unless they are living in the city and there's no crisis. So I - like a lot of poorer Australians - don't live in the city. I'm really unimpressed at being forced to buy a new phone so that they can make more money, and then potentially find that my calls won't connect, or drop out when they do. Telstra was founded by tax money, and is in a weird sort of public/private space, but they are best understood as a monopoly with token competition. If you don't use Telstra in areas like mine, then you can't use a phone. The government required me to have a phone 24/7 and to be on call as I am a disabled pensioner waiting for housing. It told me that if I don't answer the phone when they call, they give the housing to someone else. So it's a big deal, and I have no choice, and I have to add this to the laundrey list of reasons I fvcking despise the government, and yes, I'm aware that only around 1% of the government are actually people you can vote for.

[mattnicholls69]

Australia's 3G network is shutting down today. This is what you need to know - https://www.9news.com.au/technology/3g-network-shutdown-australia-when-does-it-happen-who-does-it-affect-telstra-optus-vodafone-explained/499635b2-f49d-4ba5-8aa8-15adfb224754

[solsticethebatearedfox]

Posted a while back about the 3G shutdown impacting 4G phones (read article below for more details). Today, I got a message from Optus telling me my brand new 4G phone will not be working anymore. Despite it being 4G - I specifically researched to ensure it works on the bands Optus uses. It is absolutely bullshit that it will no longer be working, and I will be writing to my MP about it - I suggest you do the same. Please reblog for your Australian followers - hopefully if enough of us complain they'll fix it.

https://medium.com/@jamesdwho/australias-3g-shutdown-telcos-to-block-working-4g-5g-phones-2bf41e95de8a

@batshit-auspol wanna reblog to spread awareness?

[theseoblogspace]

Australia's 3G Sunset

What You Need to Know About the Network Shutdown The 3G network shutdown in Australia is a significant technological transition that will impact millions of devices and users across the country. Here’s what Australians need to know about the 3G shutdown: Shutdown Timeline Vodafone has already shut down its 3G network between December 2023 and January 2024. Telstra will shut down its 3G…

[dailystraitsdotcom]

Aspera Launches Flip Phone

Aspera Mobile unveils F50 and F48 phones for 3G transition. Affordable, user-friendly.

Sydney, May 1: As the Australian telecom industry prepares for the 3G network shutdown, Aspera Mobile has launched two new mobile phones designed for simplicity and affordability. The F50 flip phone, priced at $99, and the F48 candy bar phone, available for $69, cater to those seeking user-friendly mobile solutions amidst the technological shift.Aspera’s Managing Director, Allan Robertson,…

[inhandnetworks-blog]

Australia Stops Sea Shepherd Fro cellular router  m Using Drones

www.inhandnetworks.com

Back in December, Sea Shepherd was using drones to track the Japanese whaling fleet, giving them an edge in stopping illegal whaling, but now the Australian Antarctic Division has told the group that the drones must have an urgent environmental impact assessment if they are to be used in Antarctic Treaty waters.

This decision doesn’t seem to make any sense since no one outside of the Sea Shepherd organization is trying to stop whaling, which makes a huge impact on the environment. This sentiment is echoed by Sea Shepherd’s leader, Paul Watson.

“I find it interesting that they can tell us we can’t use drones in the Southern Ocean, but Japan can kill whales in the same waters,” he said. “I think Tokyo has made another complaint to Australia.”

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[jodjuya]

Oh god fucking damn it!!

So even though my phone already uses VoLTE for calls, it's going to get forcibly disconnected at the end of the month just because it's not on the approval list.

This makes me want to cry. I just don't have the spoons to deal with the massive unfairness of all of this.

😭

>be me

>Make a phone call this morning

>Get a Telstra robovoice beforehand saying "ur phone is about to be disconnected because we're about to turn off 3g"

>am very confused. Phone is 5g phone, why is it getting disconnected???

>check Telstra website. Says to SMS "3" to 3498 to check ur phone.

>results say: "yeah boy, go buy urself a new phone"

>more confusion, because for real this is a *5g phone* using a *4g SIM card*, so Telstra wtf are you talking about???

>investigate further. Oh... maybe it's this?

>investigate *further* further. Find some nerds giving very complicated instructions for how to fix that:

>follow instructions. Get new "VoLTE" icon on status bar as described:

>🥳

>(for completeness, find the script for how to place test calls to 000, so that I can do that when September comes):

I guess if anyone wants to upgrade their elderly phone for cheap, go hit up Facebook marketplace for folks selling off their "disconnected" phones that they've been scared into needlessly upgrading from...

Though I would hope that anyone using a carrier-provided handset has received an OTA update to remedy that "hArDwiREd to uSe 3G fOr eMErGEnCy cAlLs" issue.

I don't have a carrier-provided handset so I guess that's why I slipped that particular lasso... 🤔

[mattnicholls69]

About 740,000 Australians unable to dial Triple Zero in 3G network shutdown, government warns - https://www.9news.com.au/national/triple-zero-concerns-in-3g-network-shutdown/215c8ae8-217d-46de-aecc-b0a230fc990b