Reply 20 of 31, by Jo22
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wrote:but I cannot use them for anything, even emergency telephone service as US carriers eliminated the 2G/EDGE network to make more space for LTE.
Oh dear. I had no idea it looks so dark for ol' GSM (and alikes) around the world. Still using my phone from ~95/96 here, and thought that
being able to do this was somewhat naturally; I thought that a working 2G network is something so very basic that it will never be shut down.
At least not within a couple of years. If I think about it, there are so many GSM modules installed that do their communications via good old SMS..
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