slim_boy_fat
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My friends on the West coast would be glad to have ANY mobile phone signal [due to the topography]. 
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I would have thought so.
hotponyshoes
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It would just be better all round if they left the 3g network operational or at least made the new 4/5g stations compatible with it.
I appreciate it's probably a few years old now and declining in use but there is a lot of perfectly good hardware in circulation that's probably going to end up in landfill when it gets switched off.
I appreciate it's probably a few years old now and declining in use but there is a lot of perfectly good hardware in circulation that's probably going to end up in landfill when it gets switched off.
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The reason to remove the 3G network is to free up spectrum for the newer 5G standard. There isn't really any way of making 4/5 G compatible with 3G as such, it is more that the terminals support the different standards or not. (I work in mobile networks and used to be the Program Manager for the NB-IoT standard rollout for one of the large network providers someone mentioned earlier in the thread which is a low data rate, high coverage standard that can be used for a lot of applications like smart metering)
There were some internal studies done on the impact of switching off 2G and 3G and the conclusion was that there is far more equipment currently connected to 2G (GPRS) than 3G equipment. However, that is still a headache to those connected to 3G meaning a replacement of equipment if the terminals can't fall back to 2G. 5G is an amazing technology technically speaking but my fear is that it will only work well in the dense areas and leave people in rural and hard to reach locations out in the cold and not getting the benefits.
There were some internal studies done on the impact of switching off 2G and 3G and the conclusion was that there is far more equipment currently connected to 2G (GPRS) than 3G equipment. However, that is still a headache to those connected to 3G meaning a replacement of equipment if the terminals can't fall back to 2G. 5G is an amazing technology technically speaking but my fear is that it will only work well in the dense areas and leave people in rural and hard to reach locations out in the cold and not getting the benefits.
the square type connect by bluetooth so limited range
If they continue to provide 4G in rural areas I would be happy. 5G is faster than I need and we use a 4G router to deliver wifi to our house - it works perfectly. Speeds are regularly 40mbs plus and upload speeds nearly always around 10mbs.
Ah can't do much when that's a combination of the wavelength and power output by design.
The most pointless thing I ever found was a bluetooth irc app. You needed a phone to act as a hub, so everyone was in the same room
