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What percentage of people use 3g only phones? If it’s 1%, does it make sense to keep those services running just for those people?

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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It’s not necessarily phones. It’s trackers, monitoring devices, laptops, access points, and tablets that all run over 3G bands.

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- iopq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Great! You can get 4g/5g versions of those devices because, again, the world doesn’t owe the 1% of users services
  
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AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Older Kindles. Cars

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- iopq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.
  
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bamboo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
In the US almost none, the networks are being shut down.

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user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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+.

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- iopq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s not overloaded because fewer people use it, so it costs more to run those services for less benefit
  
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