3G NOT YET 3GONE
The eternal abiguity of end dates continues, it's the 28th of
October yet 3G still works. Will it be turned off at the end of
today or sometime during the day? My 4G modem still can't see 4G
signal this morning either, so the longer 3G sticks around the
better.
Also, demonstrating the sort of personality traits that make me so
popular in cool circles, I sensed this as a prime opportunity to
gather up all my 3G phones and modems/hotspots for a goodbye
round-up:
gopher://aussies.space/I/~freet/photos/3Gone.jpg
Twenty of the things! The phone I use in the car is the one with a
box (the only one I've had since new, sitting alongside its spare,
which it turns out I never needed). The smartphone has only
connected over WiFi anyway since I just use that for testing my
websites in a phone browser (and it manages to annoy me enough just
while I'm doing that). The USB modems and hotspots got a bit out of
control due to me buying a couple of very cheap bulk lots and some
that were network-locked to telco networks I switched between. But
I do love to have spares such as for when one of the three long
blue Telstra USB mobile broadband modems died, and it was
interesting to see how the speed increased as the models progressed
even though they all used 3G.
On 4G I've already got five devices, three of the used modems like
the one that currently can't find 4G signal. One new flip phone for
keeping in the car that turned out to be locked to the wrong
network, in spite of my research, and couldn't be DIY unlocked by
any means I can find online. Substituted by another new flip phone
that my father didn't like while he was trying to upgrade from his
3G flip phone, but it was unlocked so I'm going to use that in
instead.
- The Free Thinker.
