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* 3G networks shut downJack Harry Teesdale
+* 3G networks shut downTweed
|`* 3G networks shut downJack Harry Teesdale
| +* 3G networks shut downTweed
| |+- 3G networks shut downJack Harry Teesdale
| |+- 3G networks shut downDavid Higton
| |`- 3G networks shut downJack Harry Teesdale
| `* 3G networks shut downPamela
|  +* 3G networks shut downTweed
|  |`- 3G networks shut downWilf
|  +* 3G networks shut downScott
|  |`* 3G networks shut downAndy Burns
|  | `* 3G networks shut downScott
|  |  `* 3G networks shut downAndy Burns
|  |   `* 3G networks shut downTweed
|  |    `- 3G networks shut downSoruk
|  +* 3G networks shut downJack Harry Teesdale
|  |`* 3G networks shut downTweed
|  | +- 3G networks shut downnotya...@gmail.com
|  | `* 3G networks shut downJack Harry Teesdale
|  |  `* 3G networks shut downAndy Burns
|  |   `* 3G networks shut downJack Harry Teesdale
|  |    `* 3G networks shut downTweed
|  |     `- 3G networks shut downJack Harry Teesdale
|  `* 3G networks shut downScott
|   +- 3G networks shut downAndy Burns
|   `- 3G networks shut downDavid Wade
`* 3G networks shut downAndy Burns
 +- 3G networks shut downJack Harry Teesdale
 +* 3G networks shut downChris in Makati
 |+* 3G networks shut downAndy Burns
 ||`* 3G networks shut downMB
 || `- 3G networks shut downnotya...@gmail.com
 |`- 3G networks shut downnotya...@gmail.com
 `- 3G networks shut downTheo

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From: noreply492000-medic@yahoo.co.uk (Jack Harry Teesdale)
Newsgroups: uk.telecom.mobile
Subject: 3G networks shut down
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 17:32:13 +0100
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 by: Jack Harry Teesdale - Fri, 16 Jun 2023 16:32 UTC

I had a text from Vodafone today reminding that my 3G Vodafone branded
PAYG smart-phone will revert to 2G only soon thus losing the ability to
use t'internet.

As a sop Vodafone are offering a 10% discount on an upgraded phone and
kindly provided a link, however when I tried the link it directed me to
their page 404, doh. Anyone would think it was deliberate?

I think I'll try another network, any recommendations?

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 by: Tweed - Fri, 16 Jun 2023 16:40 UTC

Jack Harry Teesdale <noreply492000-medic@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I had a text from Vodafone today reminding that my 3G Vodafone branded
> PAYG smart-phone will revert to 2G only soon thus losing the ability to
> use t'internet.
>
> As a sop Vodafone are offering a 10% discount on an upgraded phone and
> kindly provided a link, however when I tried the link it directed me to
> their page 404, doh. Anyone would think it was deliberate?
>
> I think I'll try another network, any recommendations?
>

All the remaining networks claim they will turn off 3G in 2024.

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From: usenet@andyburns.uk (Andy Burns)
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 by: Andy Burns - Fri, 16 Jun 2023 16:52 UTC

Jack Harry Teesdale wrote:

> I had a text from Vodafone today reminding that my 3G Vodafone branded
> PAYG smart-phone will revert to 2G only soon thus losing the ability to
> use t'internet.

it won't be pleasant, but doesn't it have 2.5G or 2.75G (gprs/edge)

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From: noreply492000-medic@yahoo.co.uk (Jack Harry Teesdale)
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Subject: Re: 3G networks shut down
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 by: Jack Harry Teesdale - Fri, 16 Jun 2023 16:55 UTC

On 16/06/2023 17:40, Tweed wrote:
> Jack Harry Teesdale <noreply492000-medic@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> I had a text from Vodafone today reminding that my 3G Vodafone branded
>> PAYG smart-phone will revert to 2G only soon thus losing the ability to
>> use t'internet.
>>
>> As a sop Vodafone are offering a 10% discount on an upgraded phone and
>> kindly provided a link, however when I tried the link it directed me to
>> their page 404, doh. Anyone would think it was deliberate?
>>
>> I think I'll try another network, any recommendations?
>>
>
> All the remaining networks claim they will turn off 3G in 2024.
>
Vodafone claim they a shutting down their 3G in 2023!

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From: noreply492000-medic@yahoo.co.uk (Jack Harry Teesdale)
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Subject: Re: 3G networks shut down
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 by: Jack Harry Teesdale - Fri, 16 Jun 2023 16:58 UTC

On 16/06/2023 17:52, Andy Burns wrote:
> Jack Harry Teesdale wrote:
>
>> I had a text from Vodafone today reminding that my 3G Vodafone branded
>> PAYG smart-phone will revert to 2G only soon thus losing the ability
>> to use t'internet.
>
> it won't be pleasant, but doesn't it have 2.5G or 2.75G (gprs/edge)
>
I don't think so, it's a Hauwei so I'm probably better off upgrading!

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From: mail@nospam.com (Chris in Makati)
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 by: Chris in Makati - Fri, 16 Jun 2023 18:50 UTC

On Fri, 16 Jun 2023 17:52:03 +0100, Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
wrote:

>Jack Harry Teesdale wrote:
>
>> I had a text from Vodafone today reminding that my 3G Vodafone branded
>> PAYG smart-phone will revert to 2G only soon thus losing the ability to
>> use t'internet.
>
>it won't be pleasant, but doesn't it have 2.5G or 2.75G (gprs/edge)

Good luck trying to do much at all with that.

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 by: Andy Burns - Fri, 16 Jun 2023 18:55 UTC

Chris in Makati wrote:

> Andy Burns wrote:
>
>> it won't be pleasant, but doesn't it have 2.5G or 2.75G (gprs/edge)
>
> Good luck trying to do much at all with that.

Sometimes at my late parents house (so phoneline/broadband disconnected)
that's all I get, unless I plonk the phone in an upstairs window sill
and then tether to it from downstairs ...

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 by: Tweed - Fri, 16 Jun 2023 20:48 UTC

Jack Harry Teesdale <noreply492000-medic@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 16/06/2023 17:40, Tweed wrote:
>> Jack Harry Teesdale <noreply492000-medic@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>> I had a text from Vodafone today reminding that my 3G Vodafone branded
>>> PAYG smart-phone will revert to 2G only soon thus losing the ability to
>>> use t'internet.
>>>
>>> As a sop Vodafone are offering a 10% discount on an upgraded phone and
>>> kindly provided a link, however when I tried the link it directed me to
>>> their page 404, doh. Anyone would think it was deliberate?
>>>
>>> I think I'll try another network, any recommendations?
>>>
>>
>> All the remaining networks claim they will turn off 3G in 2024.
>>
> Vodafone claim they a shutting down their 3G in 2023!
>

My point was jumping networks is only going to give your phone another year
or so.

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 by: MB - Sat, 17 Jun 2023 07:16 UTC

On 16/06/2023 19:55, Andy Burns wrote:
> Sometimes at my late parents house (so phoneline/broadband disconnected)
> that's all I get, unless I plonk the phone in an upstairs window sill
> and then tether to it from downstairs ...

A nearby bunker had an antenna on the surface connected to a similar
antenna in a letter tray several levels below in the comms room.

People would leave their mobile phones in the letter tray and receive
text messages, they then go upstairs if they wished to make a voice call.

Later there was a repeater installed so mobile phones worked in the bunker.

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 by: Theo - Sat, 17 Jun 2023 09:36 UTC

Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
> Jack Harry Teesdale wrote:
>
> > I had a text from Vodafone today reminding that my 3G Vodafone branded
> > PAYG smart-phone will revert to 2G only soon thus losing the ability to
> > use t'internet.
>
> it won't be pleasant, but doesn't it have 2.5G or 2.75G (gprs/edge)

I thought they were winding that down? ie they are keeping 2G and a basic
data channel for smart meters and stuff, but they aren't providing big
chunks of bandwidth for smartphone users who have mostly all migrated to
3/4/5G. The 2G spectrum that was previously used for that bandwidth has
mostly been refarmed over to 4G or 5G, leaving only a barebones 2G network.

So I'd expect 2G to operate worse than it did in the iPhone 1's heyday, and
perhaps that might affect the bandwidth you see (not just the number of
concurrent users of the 2G network).

Theo

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 by: Jack Harry Teesdale - Sat, 17 Jun 2023 14:26 UTC

On 16/06/2023 21:48, Tweed wrote:
> Jack Harry Teesdale <noreply492000-medic@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 16/06/2023 17:40, Tweed wrote:
>>> Jack Harry Teesdale <noreply492000-medic@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> I had a text from Vodafone today reminding that my 3G Vodafone branded
>>>> PAYG smart-phone will revert to 2G only soon thus losing the ability to
>>>> use t'internet.
>>>>
>>>> As a sop Vodafone are offering a 10% discount on an upgraded phone and
>>>> kindly provided a link, however when I tried the link it directed me to
>>>> their page 404, doh. Anyone would think it was deliberate?
>>>>
>>>> I think I'll try another network, any recommendations?
>>>>
>>>
>>> All the remaining networks claim they will turn off 3G in 2024.
>>>
>> Vodafone claim they a shutting down their 3G in 2023!
>>
>
> My point was jumping networks is only going to give your phone another year
> or so.
>

Thanks

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 by: notya...@gmail.com - Sat, 17 Jun 2023 19:22 UTC

On Friday, 16 June 2023 at 19:51:02 UTC+1, Chris in Makati wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jun 2023 17:52:03 +0100, Andy Burns <use...@andyburns.uk>
> wrote:
> >Jack Harry Teesdale wrote:
> >
> >> I had a text from Vodafone today reminding that my 3G Vodafone branded
> >> PAYG smart-phone will revert to 2G only soon thus losing the ability to
> >> use t'internet.
> >
> >it won't be pleasant, but doesn't it have 2.5G or 2.75G (gprs/edge)
> Good luck trying to do much at all with that.

Back in 2008 my "employer" provided me with a Blackberry 8900 for work use. It had GPRS and Edge, but not 3G. Web access was painfully slow (as was the phone itself), however things like email updated quite happily in the background.

These days email is mostly HTML rather than mainly text, so this might not work so well if you receive a lot.

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 by: notya...@gmail.com - Sat, 17 Jun 2023 19:24 UTC

On Saturday, 17 June 2023 at 08:16:56 UTC+1, MB wrote:
> On 16/06/2023 19:55, Andy Burns wrote:
> > Sometimes at my late parents house (so phoneline/broadband disconnected)
> > that's all I get, unless I plonk the phone in an upstairs window sill
> > and then tether to it from downstairs ...
> A nearby bunker had an antenna on the surface connected to a similar
> antenna in a letter tray several levels below in the comms room.
>
> People would leave their mobile phones in the letter tray and receive
> text messages, they then go upstairs if they wished to make a voice call.
>
> Later there was a repeater installed so mobile phones worked in the bunker.

Lots of places are like this, my sister's old place in the sticks (SMS in stone section, voice upstairs or the bottom of the garden), similarly in large steel frame buildings.

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 by: David Higton - Sat, 17 Jun 2023 19:47 UTC

In message <u6ihr4$uad3$1@dont-email.me>
Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> wrote:

> Jack Harry Teesdale <noreply492000-medic@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > On 16/06/2023 17:40, Tweed wrote:
> > > Jack Harry Teesdale <noreply492000-medic@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > > > I had a text from Vodafone today reminding that my 3G Vodafone
> > > > branded PAYG smart-phone will revert to 2G only soon thus losing the
> > > > ability to use t'internet.
> > > >
> > > > As a sop Vodafone are offering a 10% discount on an upgraded phone
> > > > and kindly provided a link, however when I tried the link it directed
> > > > me to their page 404, doh. Anyone would think it was deliberate?
> > > >
> > > > I think I'll try another network, any recommendations?
> > > >
> > >
> > > All the remaining networks claim they will turn off 3G in 2024.
> > >
> > Vodafone claim they a shutting down their 3G in 2023!
> >
>
> My point was jumping networks is only going to give your phone another year
> or so.

Yes, you (we all) need to keep moving forward from time to time. That's
the way with all technological stuff - progress leaves the old stuff to
museums and the like.

(I love steam trains, but I wouldn't dream of trying to run a modern
railway with them. For example.)

David

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 by: Pamela - Mon, 26 Jun 2023 17:38 UTC

On 17:55 16 Jun 2023, Jack Harry Teesdale said:

> On 16/06/2023 17:40, Tweed wrote:
>> Jack Harry Teesdale <noreply492000-medic@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>> I had a text from Vodafone today reminding that my 3G Vodafone
>>> branded PAYG smart-phone will revert to 2G only soon thus losing
>>> the ability to use t'internet.
>>>
>>> As a sop Vodafone are offering a 10% discount on an upgraded phone
>>> and kindly provided a link, however when I tried the link it
>>> directed me to their page 404, doh. Anyone would think it was
>>> deliberate?
>>>
>>> I think I'll try another network, any recommendations?
>>>
>>
>> All the remaining networks claim they will turn off 3G in 2024.
>>
> Vodafone claim they a shutting down their 3G in 2023!

Some old smartphones which use only 3G or lower will stop working. How
many years back do you have to go to when such phones were on sale?

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 by: Tweed - Mon, 26 Jun 2023 17:51 UTC

Pamela <pamela.private.mailbox@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17:55 16 Jun 2023, Jack Harry Teesdale said:
>
>> On 16/06/2023 17:40, Tweed wrote:
>>> Jack Harry Teesdale <noreply492000-medic@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> I had a text from Vodafone today reminding that my 3G Vodafone
>>>> branded PAYG smart-phone will revert to 2G only soon thus losing
>>>> the ability to use t'internet.
>>>>
>>>> As a sop Vodafone are offering a 10% discount on an upgraded phone
>>>> and kindly provided a link, however when I tried the link it
>>>> directed me to their page 404, doh. Anyone would think it was
>>>> deliberate?
>>>>
>>>> I think I'll try another network, any recommendations?
>>>>
>>>
>>> All the remaining networks claim they will turn off 3G in 2024.
>>>
>> Vodafone claim they a shutting down their 3G in 2023!
>
> Some old smartphones which use only 3G or lower will stop working. How
> many years back do you have to go to when such phones were on sale?
>

There’ll be someone muttering that their 405 line TV can’t get a signal…

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 by: Wilf - Tue, 27 Jun 2023 07:18 UTC

On 26/06/2023 at 18:51, Tweed wrote:
> Pamela <pamela.private.mailbox@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 17:55 16 Jun 2023, Jack Harry Teesdale said:
>>
>>> On 16/06/2023 17:40, Tweed wrote:
>>>> Jack Harry Teesdale <noreply492000-medic@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>> I had a text from Vodafone today reminding that my 3G Vodafone
>>>>> branded PAYG smart-phone will revert to 2G only soon thus losing
>>>>> the ability to use t'internet.
>>>>>
>>>>> As a sop Vodafone are offering a 10% discount on an upgraded phone
>>>>> and kindly provided a link, however when I tried the link it
>>>>> directed me to their page 404, doh. Anyone would think it was
>>>>> deliberate?
>>>>>
>>>>> I think I'll try another network, any recommendations?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> All the remaining networks claim they will turn off 3G in 2024.
>>>>
>>> Vodafone claim they a shutting down their 3G in 2023!
>>
>> Some old smartphones which use only 3G or lower will stop working. How
>> many years back do you have to go to when such phones were on sale?
>>
>
> There’ll be someone muttering that their 405 line TV can’t get a signal…
>

Oh no! No 405?

--
Wilf

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On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 18:38:55 +0100, Pamela
<pamela.private.mailbox@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 17:55 16 Jun 2023, Jack Harry Teesdale said:
>
>> On 16/06/2023 17:40, Tweed wrote:
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>>>> branded PAYG smart-phone will revert to 2G only soon thus losing
>>>> the ability to use t'internet.
>>>>
>>>> As a sop Vodafone are offering a 10% discount on an upgraded phone
>>>> and kindly provided a link, however when I tried the link it
>>>> directed me to their page 404, doh. Anyone would think it was
>>>> deliberate?
>>>>
>>>> I think I'll try another network, any recommendations?
>>>>
>>>
>>> All the remaining networks claim they will turn off 3G in 2024.
>>>
>> Vodafone claim they a shutting down their 3G in 2023!
>
>Some old smartphones which use only 3G or lower will stop working. How
>many years back do you have to go to when such phones were on sale?

I thought 2G was to remain because of emergency alarms, switching of
smart meters and some other purposes.

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 by: Andy Burns - Tue, 27 Jun 2023 08:38 UTC

Scott wrote:

> I thought 2G was to remain because of emergency alarms, switching of
> smart meters and some other purposes.

2G in the UK has got "up to a decade" left, nobody is being particularly
precise ...

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 by: Scott - Tue, 27 Jun 2023 10:36 UTC

On Tue, 27 Jun 2023 09:38:49 +0100, Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
wrote:

>Scott wrote:
>
>> I thought 2G was to remain because of emergency alarms, switching of
>> smart meters and some other purposes.
>
>2G in the UK has got "up to a decade" left, nobody is being particularly
>precise ...

Can all 3G phones use 2G for calls and texts?

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 by: Andy Burns - Tue, 27 Jun 2023 12:06 UTC

Scott wrote:

> Can all 3G phones use 2G for calls and texts?

I'd be amazed if not ...

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From: noreply492000-medic@yahoo.co.uk (Jack Harry Teesdale)
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Subject: Re: 3G networks shut down
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 by: Jack Harry Teesdale - Tue, 27 Jun 2023 14:01 UTC

On 26/06/2023 18:38, Pamela wrote:
> On 17:55 16 Jun 2023, Jack Harry Teesdale said:
>
>> On 16/06/2023 17:40, Tweed wrote:
>>> Jack Harry Teesdale <noreply492000-medic@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> I had a text from Vodafone today reminding that my 3G Vodafone
>>>> branded PAYG smart-phone will revert to 2G only soon thus losing
>>>> the ability to use t'internet.
>>>>
>>>> As a sop Vodafone are offering a 10% discount on an upgraded phone
>>>> and kindly provided a link, however when I tried the link it
>>>> directed me to their page 404, doh. Anyone would think it was
>>>> deliberate?
>>>>
>>>> I think I'll try another network, any recommendations?
>>>>
>>>
>>> All the remaining networks claim they will turn off 3G in 2024.
>>>
>> Vodafone claim they a shutting down their 3G in 2023!
>
> Some old smartphones which use only 3G or lower will stop working. How
> many years back do you have to go to when such phones were on sale?

My smartphone is *only* 7 yrs old purchased new 1n 2016, so not exactly
ancient!

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 by: Scott - Tue, 27 Jun 2023 14:46 UTC

On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 18:38:55 +0100, Pamela
<pamela.private.mailbox@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 17:55 16 Jun 2023, Jack Harry Teesdale said:
>
>> On 16/06/2023 17:40, Tweed wrote:
>>> Jack Harry Teesdale <noreply492000-medic@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> I had a text from Vodafone today reminding that my 3G Vodafone
>>>> branded PAYG smart-phone will revert to 2G only soon thus losing
>>>> the ability to use t'internet.
>>>>
>>>> As a sop Vodafone are offering a 10% discount on an upgraded phone
>>>> and kindly provided a link, however when I tried the link it
>>>> directed me to their page 404, doh. Anyone would think it was
>>>> deliberate?
>>>>
>>>> I think I'll try another network, any recommendations?
>>>>
>>>
>>> All the remaining networks claim they will turn off 3G in 2024.
>>>
>> Vodafone claim they a shutting down their 3G in 2023!
>
>Some old smartphones which use only 3G or lower will stop working. How
>many years back do you have to go to when such phones were on sale?

From other posts (Andy Burns), this seems to be incorrect. 3G
smartphones are compatible with 2G and 2G is continuing for another 10
years.

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 by: Tweed - Tue, 27 Jun 2023 15:52 UTC

Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
> Scott wrote:
>
> > Can all 3G phones use 2G for calls and texts?
>
> I'd be amazed if not ...
>
>
>

Not on the 3 network. That’s a feature of the network, not the phone.

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 by: Tweed - Tue, 27 Jun 2023 15:53 UTC

Jack Harry Teesdale <noreply492000-medic@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 26/06/2023 18:38, Pamela wrote:
>> On 17:55 16 Jun 2023, Jack Harry Teesdale said:
>>
>>> On 16/06/2023 17:40, Tweed wrote:
>>>> Jack Harry Teesdale <noreply492000-medic@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>> I had a text from Vodafone today reminding that my 3G Vodafone
>>>>> branded PAYG smart-phone will revert to 2G only soon thus losing
>>>>> the ability to use t'internet.
>>>>>
>>>>> As a sop Vodafone are offering a 10% discount on an upgraded phone
>>>>> and kindly provided a link, however when I tried the link it
>>>>> directed me to their page 404, doh. Anyone would think it was
>>>>> deliberate?
>>>>>
>>>>> I think I'll try another network, any recommendations?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> All the remaining networks claim they will turn off 3G in 2024.
>>>>
>>> Vodafone claim they a shutting down their 3G in 2023!
>>
>> Some old smartphones which use only 3G or lower will stop working. How
>> many years back do you have to go to when such phones were on sale?
>
> My smartphone is *only* 7 yrs old purchased new 1n 2016, so not exactly
> ancient!
>

It’s very ancient in the context of a rapidly changing technology.

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