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Re:Fire shuts down cell towers in CA by im3w1l on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @09:09AM (#21386666)
Do modern phones even support 2g anymore?
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Re:Fire shuts down cell towers in CA by sgtnoodle on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @09:18AM (#21386755)
Why wouldn't they? As technology improves, it's a relatively small area of silicon in the chipsets.
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Re:Fire shuts down cell towers in CA by 0b0001 on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @11:12AM (#21388045)
Security could be one of the reasons -- 2G is the only technology remaining with no authentication of the network, and plenty of other issues.

But I agree with you.

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