LTE Has Slowed by 50% in the US This Year

Re:LTE Has Slowed by 50% in the US This Year by taneliv on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @02:43PM (#12746494)

FYI, AT&T will shut down their 2G network by the end of the year: https://www.att.com/esupport/article.html#!/wireless/KM10848...

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Re:LTE Has Slowed by 50% in the US This Year by mschuster91 on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @02:58PM (#12746647)

Thank God I'm not in the US. I wonder what will happen to all the embedded stuff using low-power 2G chipsets because they transfer data via SMS or CSD/GPRS?

I'm especially thinking about car/truck theft systems. That's going to be expensive to retrofit these...

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Re:LTE Has Slowed by 50% in the US This Year by dshuaihd on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @04:50PM (#12747549)

I work in the automotive industry and the 2G shutdown announcement caused a bit of an uproar for car dealerships that install GPS/starter interrupt devices in the vehicles they sell (for purposes of repossession). Most dealerships buy these devices in bulk, and as I recall from a conference I went to a year or two ago only one of the major providers was offering a partial discount on the price of more modern 3G units for those with soon to be obsolete 2G stockpiles.

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Re:LTE Has Slowed by 50% in the US This Year by daurnimator on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @03:32PM (#12746955)

Australia is also shutting down 2G next year. They're trying to free up spectrum for more 4G and possibly 5G

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Re:LTE Has Slowed by 50% in the US This Year by snuxoll on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @08:04PM (#12748831)

T-Mobile has committed to keeping their 2G network operational until 2020 for these M2M devices - and they support the same GSM bands as AT&T does. Unless these device manufacturers want to rush to put LTE radios in everything they'd be wise to just replace everything with T-Mobile SIM's and work on a better upgrade plan over the next 4 years.

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Re:LTE Has Slowed by 50% in the US This Year by taneliv on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @03:10PM (#12746766)

I don't know how comprehesive this is, but clearly AT&T is not the only one (or US the only market affected): http://www.zdnet.com/article/optus-announces-2g-network-shut...

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Re:LTE Has Slowed by 50% in the US This Year by bitmage on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @06:48PM (#12748386)

Currently seeing this with the Nissan Leaf. It has a 2G modem built in for their Carwings service. Nissan has sent out a letter that the car will need an update for the data features to keep working, but no details on cost or availability. My local dealer has no idea either.

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Re:LTE Has Slowed by 50% in the US This Year by brassic on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @04:22PM (#12747364)

Are you in the UK? We're installing "smart" gas and electricity meters, which use 2G, but industry analysts are predicting the cessation of 2G here by 2020. Awesome!

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Re:LTE Has Slowed by 50% in the US This Year by imtringued on Thursday October 20, 2016 @06:14AM (#12751028)

Maybe it's time for swappable wireless transceivers? Something along the lines of SFP?

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Re:LTE Has Slowed by 50% in the US This Year by mschuster91 on Friday October 21, 2016 @08:20AM (#12759756)

Won't help much, because the antenna and coax cable has to meet the correct specs for the frequencies used by the transmitter.

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Re:LTE Has Slowed by 50% in the US This Year by joecool1029 on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @06:26PM (#12748246)

T-Mobile isn't shutting this down anytime soon. Those customers will have to move there (same frequencies anyway).

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