Older Kindles. Cars
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iopq@lemmy.world 10 months agoWhat percentage of people use 3g only phones? If it’s 1%, does it make sense to keep those services running just for those people?
AA5B@lemmy.world 10 months ago
iopq@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s still a small number of users no matter how many use cases you list. There are newer Kindles and newer cars. 3g being turned off is inevitable no matter how many old devices are in existence.
bamboo@lemm.ee 10 months ago
In the US almost none, the networks are being shut down.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
It’s not just for that. 3G isn’t that overloaded. In my area I get 1-3Mbps on 4G LTE but around 20Mbps on 3G HSPA+.
iopq@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s not overloaded because fewer people use it, so it costs more to run those services for less benefit
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s not necessarily phones. It’s trackers, monitoring devices, laptops, access points, and tablets that all run over 3G bands.
iopq@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Great! You can get 4g/5g versions of those devices because, again, the world doesn’t owe the 1% of users services