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I just found out my country also started deprecating 3G last year and will deprecate 2G in 2025. That is a bit sad, as I've just powered on some old 2G phones a

• cyanydeez 3y ago
  Tech debt in this case seems like artificial scarcity
  • toast0 3y ago
    Lack of spectrum and/or tower sites is real scarcity. LTE and 5G are supposed to be better able to share spectrum, to the point where they can share the control channel, and multiplex the data channels with either encoding, but 2g and 3g can't do that, so you have to dedicate at least minimum sized blocks. Running one min block on 2G does wonderful things for ensuring access, but it's expensive in spectrum, especially if each network needs to do it. (Because cooperating between networks is really only a thing if mandated, or out in rural areas where there's little demand)
  • imtringued 3y ago
    Do you still use dial up?