Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off

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• DarkwinDuck@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Honestly, I work for an iot Mobile network provider, the amount of devices that will brick if 2G will be turned off is massive. Especially the cheaper ones that only have 2G/3G modems on board. And not only are they the most likely to brick, but also the most unlikely to be fixed.

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  • agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Those bands have great uses too imo, further range than 5g, great for beacons, telemetry, low bandwidth send a recieve. Could be really useful and the only upside of discontinuatuon is maybe they’ll let me and the other amateur radio operators play around on segments of those bands eventually. All the stuff you kick off the 2/3g networks will need to be updated and start clogging the 5g bands. Needless traffic on frequencies that could be reserved for denser traffic.

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    • Pasta4u@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They aren’t going to disallow the usage. They are just going to stop using the old hardware and deploy new generations of hardware on that frequency

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    • SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There aren’t “5g bands”. The reason they shut down 2g/3g is to reuse the spectrum for 5g.

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• alphacyberranger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not so smart now are they

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  • JoShmoe@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They should have thought about this before they became exclusive to 2G and 3G

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  The report echoes an earlier one by the National Audit Office (NAO), which found that as of March 2023, energy companies had rolled out the devices to just 57 percent (roughly 32.4 million out of a potential install base of 57.1 million) homes and businesses.

  It asks both to set out “what they will do to ensure suppliers assign more importance than at present to replacing those smart meters not functioning properly” and “a timetable for replacing the communication hub element of smart meters that will lose functionality when the 2G and 3G mobile networks are switched off.”

  It is hardly surprising the PAC, which studies public audits such as those written by the NAO, is concerned about deadlines because the smart meter project has missed plenty so far.

  The scheme started in 2012 when government placed the legal burden on energy suppliers to ensure they’d complete the smart meter rollout by 2019.

  The PAC also want DESNZ and Ofgem to outline “measures to ensure that suppliers use future-proofed technology – for example, by excluding 2G or 3G connectivity – in all new smart meter installations.”

  And it wants the department and the energy watchdog to detail program costs to Parliament on an annual basis to inform decisions about the rollout.

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• Toes@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is the primary reason 2g is insecure and 3g has phat channels?

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