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AT&T Shuts Down 2G Network and Ends Cellular Connectivity for Original iPhone
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usually with government agencies and such due to the budgets they work with the cost doesnt usually get justified until it stops working.
It's called planned obsolescence... Makes it easy to know what to design into the iPhone 3G
It's stupid Tim Cook's fault.
He SOOO needs to go.
Stupid MacRumors.
An article about a ten year old iPhone.
No articles on new Macs.
Where are the new Macs?
Stupid Jony, too.
All stupid.
He SOOO needs to go.
Stupid MacRumors.
An article about a ten year old iPhone.
No articles on new Macs.
Where are the new Macs?
Stupid Jony, too.
All stupid.
The train station in Stuttgart is a common issue with o2/e+plus. You said you have all three? Try Telekom in Stuttgart, and you'll have LTE everywhere!Lucky, the phone coverage in Germany is still utter crap and i have a plan on all three.
Was in Costa Rica for vacation, even had LTE in the jungle and never saw anything below 3G. Got back home and just out of Frankfurt ... 1 bar of edge before dying completely. At my parents place i turn on airplane mode and use wifi cuz 1 bar of edge is useless. Some places i even see "GPRS"!
At the train station in Stuttgart it shows me 3G but nothing loads. So embarrassing for a european country.
Rant over
http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/i...och.1c191aad-3d5a-435e-a73f-d21151bb385f.html
FINALLY! We actually had a 2G tower near my work. Yes.... Really! I'd call constantly complaining that they needed to upgrade cuz we couldn't even send a simple text and calls dropped or were garbled. I was so pleased when I came back to work after the NY holiday to see LTE on my phone! *gasp!*
Goes to show you how well made these devices are constructed and they last beyond most other competitor devices. There is still a demographic using the 3G as an iPhone today.
They're not freeing up much spectrum, by the way. They already had the bare minimum allocated to 2G/EDGE in most of their market, so you're not going to see a truckload of additional bandwidth available for 4G/LTE.
This WILL however free up physical antenna space on towers, rack space in the radio shacks attached to these towers, and resources that could otherwise be better employed. So it's a good thing in the end.
And if you want to keep playing with your iPhone 1 for some reason, just get a T-Mobile SIM. Their 2G/EDGE will be up for a bit longer.
This WILL however free up physical antenna space on towers, rack space in the radio shacks attached to these towers, and resources that could otherwise be better employed. So it's a good thing in the end.
And if you want to keep playing with your iPhone 1 for some reason, just get a T-Mobile SIM. Their 2G/EDGE will be up for a bit longer.
Disconnect your current phone from power, leave it on airplane mode, don't use it for anything but white noise.. I guarantee you double or tireless that battery life. Ignorant comment....
Nobody complained about the network being shut down because it didn't result in any noticable loss in call quality.
Wow thanks for the article. For a while i thought it was actually my stupid work phone and i wanted to throw it. Many times
Yup... some BMW owners were really ticked off by this. I get it that things get phased out, but some of the BMWs affected by this were as late as 2014 model year. I know on some models they are offering a new cell. module to make it work again.
Hopefully, we'll have some. Sorry for being pessimistic, but after a year like 2016...
They needed another feature to sell more. Don't forget Apple is a BUSINESS at the end of the day.
I pull my first-generation iPhone out maybe once a year. Try to browse a few websites and laugh when modern CSS/JS confounds the Safari browser.
I have two of them that I power on just to check out maybe once a year. Is T-Mobile 2G shut down too? Or could someone put a T-Mobile sim in it?
Well, it was a great phone. If Verizon ever turns off their legacy network, it will cause problems for many of the older car connected systems, older OnStar, Mercedes MBrace/Teleaid, etc. They already went through that once when analog was turned off.
Well, it was a great phone. If Verizon ever turns off their legacy network, it will cause problems for many of the older car connected systems, older OnStar, Mercedes MBrace/Teleaid, etc. They already went through that once when analog was turned off.
