Re:Making sense of the EU’s fight for user-replaceable smart...
by scarface_74 on Sunday June 25, 2023 @12:56PM
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3G was dropped because the same frequency could better used for 4G. Unless you somehow found a way to get around the laws of physics.
Re:Making sense of the EU’s fight for user-replaceable smart...
by linooma_ on Sunday June 25, 2023 @04:52PM
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Not here in the US. The carriers wanted to discontinue 3G for years. They really only started it in earnest in 2018. It took them about 3 years longer from the first dates given to finally kill 3G. It sound to me as if 3G phones didn't bite the dust as fast as carriers assumed or customers refused to upgrade at the rate they expected.
Most of that is a chicken-and-egg problem. 3G was dropped because very few phones were still using it, and you could not run 3G on the same frequency as 4G/5G. If phones lasted longer, more people would've remained on 3G, so they would not have dropped it. Furthermore, 4G and 5G can share the same equipment and frequency due to Dynamic Spectrum Sharing, so there is no technical reason to quickly get rid of 4G like we wanted with 2G & 3G.