Getting 2g Cellphones to Work

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[–]Anman 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

mmmm. Kinda like china. Sim cards are linked to their retail providers. But using an overseas one would just kick in roaming networks which is expensive as shit.

There is one network with wholesale gateway providers that resell to retailers. It is the same for our ISPs. Majority of phone traffic now routes through the internet now anyway, due to a special retarded internet system refereed to as the NBN. Regardless of where my data routes through though, it's all the same. It is also lets the government block anything they want on the internet and tap into any call they want. Which they have allowed themselves to do so.

[–]tiny-brown-mug[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

Sounds creepy as heck. So... what do folks from abroad with 2g phones do? Just get all new phones in Australia?

[–]Anman 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Creepy? Nah, just communism in the making. Totally expected and understandable.

And yep. I use my old 2g phone as a music player now.

[–]tiny-brown-mug[S] 0 insightful - 1 fun0 insightful - 0 fun1 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

If you absolutely had to make an emergency call on an old phone with no SIM could you? Over here, they still let you call 911, even with no SIM or regular service.

[–]Anman 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Nope.

Out of curiosity I looked into it just to be sure though, and yeah, no. All 2g networks were shut down to increase 4g traffic. Emergency networks also have to be upgraded because of this. So there you go.

Low power, long range and reliable connections are not allowed in this country. I used to be on ADSL 1 (im country), but they forced us onto the "super better than everything you had before NBN" and now its usually slower than before, due to all network going through the same nodes.

[–]tiny-brown-mug[S] 0 insightful - 1 fun0 insightful - 0 fun1 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That's the case here too, to an extent. They're forcing a lot of people onto 5g and it's incredibly slow, unreliable, and keeps having to slip back into 4g. They also eradicated 3g, and one network (I think) even shuttered 4g, at least in one area.

Out of curiosity, do people use amateur or citizens' band radio in Australia much?

[–]Anman 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

CB radios are common due to the large truck network. But once you leave the city towns are too spread apart and the people in the city suburbias are too retarded to do anything other than eat, watch tv and be degenerate. So not much radio stuff here.

I am surprised they are shutting down 3g. Shutting down 2g here has some almost valid excuses due to our poor infrastructure. But to shut down 3g sounds extremely malicious.