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Re:Tell HN: AT&T disabled phone numbers and accounts of user... by Bud on Friday May 06, 2022 @08:18AM (#31284273)
> Unfortunately, the rep insisted that all telcos would follow suit, and there would be no phones used without 5G compatibility soon.

This has approximately zero chance of being true. For instance, all iPhones before iPhone 12 lacked 5G. There's no way AT&T or any major carrier will get away with nuking support for iPhone 11, XS, X, 9, or 8. Probably not even iPhone 7, which still supports the latest version of iOS.

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Re:Tell HN: AT&T disabled phone numbers and accounts of user... by hitovst on Saturday May 07, 2022 @01:04AM (#31292293)
The rep said that 6G was coming soon, and my friend asked if the 5G phones would all be made as worthless as the 4G LTE phones are now. This was one of the reasons given for not wanting to purchase a new phone when their phone still worked with every band AT&T used in the area (which was proven correct when they reactivated the SIM).
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