Re:Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence with NASA via Radio Transmit...
by ncruces on Monday November 18, 2024 @04:45AM
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Portugal will keep it too.
Dumb phones are still being sold that are 2G only.
Not just that, but “landlines” are still being offered that are really a 2G phone restricted to work only in the vicinity of a home that's not (yet?) covered by actual landlines.
It's also used by emergency services.
It's considered a technology of last resort, and the service provider that wins the concession to provide it, with 100% coverage of a given area, probably finds it useful that it can meet the conditions with such tech.
Dumb phones are still being sold that are 2G only.
Not just that, but “landlines” are still being offered that are really a 2G phone restricted to work only in the vicinity of a home that's not (yet?) covered by actual landlines.
It's also used by emergency services.
It's considered a technology of last resort, and the service provider that wins the concession to provide it, with 100% coverage of a given area, probably finds it useful that it can meet the conditions with such tech.
3G has already shut down.