• RubberDuck
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    -1818 days ago

    Yes, the phones are non compliant and need to be barred. This is good. Everyone must be able to access emergency services in times of crisis. The fact some manufacturers make phones that don’t use 4g for this means their phones rely on outdated tech and standards and will be excluded.

    Railing against this is just weird.

    • @[email protected]
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      1318 days ago

      Except they weren’t non-compliant before and this is punishing the users, not the manufacturers. I don’t even know what tech my phone uses for emergency services.

      • RubberDuck
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        -1318 days ago

        So? Technology moves forward. So of you have a phone no longer compliant you need to get a replacement.

        • @[email protected]
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          718 days ago

          These are not 20 year old phones. There’s a reason these transitions are made gradually.

        • @quafeinum
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          418 days ago

          That’s not how telecommunications work at all. You always have backwards compatibility and you don’t need perfect latency or beam forming to make an emergency call. Don’t kid yourself it is solely to fuck with consumers and to make more money somehow.

          Telcos in Australia have so far been the worst money grabbing vultures that I’ve ever seen. Like these motherfuckers would lock a PoE line to the MAC address of an networkadapter, so that you could use one machine and nothing more.

        • Darth_Mew
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          -217 days ago

          gooddamn your tongue must be raw from licking those corpo assholes all day. take a breather my man good lord!