In the Netherlands they announce that the 2G/3G phone signals will soon not be available anymore. So those old flip phones and burners would not be able to text or call because the network is updated?
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*I asked about this in a local phone store and they told me those old phones can’t be used anymore once they remove 2G/3G from the network to optimise 5G
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ELI5 The older phone services are limited in the number of people that can use them and how much stuff those people can access at once. With newer technology more people can share more information in a single area. The old equipment costs money to keep running and only lasts for so long. The old equipment already has too many people trying to share too much stuff. The phone companies have a choice to make soon. A lot of old equipment is about to be too old to work any more. They either need to replace it with the same thing and let peoples’ services get overloaded and fail, or they need to make an upgrade to a system that will work for more people and allow them to share more information. The old service has to go away because people do not want to pay twice as much for phone service to keep outdated technology available to people that did not plan their life choices very well.
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