Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G.

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• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not just old people. I had a heart monitor a couple years ago that’s only made for 2G.

  Alright maybe I’m getting old but that’s not the point.

  When I was visiting the Caribbean they also had a lot of 2G infrastructure still operating.

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  • Revered_Beard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It sounds like there’s a really big market opportunity for somebody to make a portable transceiver that converts 2G and 3G signals into 5G…

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    • Legume5534@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Really really difficult to do that at scale. You don’t want random companies making cell signal transceivers.

      You’d be better off just replacing the 2g transceivers entirely.

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      • Revered_Beard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        While I agree with you in principle, that’s a hard sell to somebody with an embedded 2G medical device.

        You don’t want random companies making cell signal transceivers.

        Setting “companies” aside, I don’t see why it couldn’t be some sort of DIY project. Like, a small computer with a both a 2G and 5G modem, a set of antennas for each, and some middleware…

        In fact, there are some phones that support both networks… So why couldn’t a spare phone be used? They technically already have all the hardware to make it work.

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    • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m not sure there would be an advantage. The signals are very different. That might be approximately equal to building a new one.

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      • Revered_Beard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        …you don’t see the advantage in avoiding open heart surgery to replace an embedded medical device?

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