Getting 2g Cellphones to Work

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[–]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.