Global leap to 4G and 5G would cut off phone access for millions of vulnerable people.
- Telecom companies aim to profit from the 2G-to-5G transition as governments worldwide face pressure to free up mobile spectrum.
- Vietnam is the latest country to shut down 2G by offering free 4G phones to the poor.
- India and South Africa have expressed concern that the strategy would cut off phone access for millions of vulnerable people.
2G is also gone.Edit: it’s not gone just yet. Not sure why the phone didn’t try to fall back to 2G.https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-broadband/coverage-and-speeds/3g-switch-off/
The old phone was a couple years into 4G existing but before we started to send voice over it.
I assume it just wasn’t in the OS-level code. It only went up to Android 11. We could have tried LineageOS but that would have required a bunch of work including wiping the phone.
Either way, we checked and the option just wasn’t there.
Were they / are they on the 3 network?
If so, that’s why because 3 has never had a 2G network at all ;)
That must be it!
alt roms often add support for volte if the phone supports 4G, because it’s just a software thing
alt roms often add support for volte if the phone supports 4G, because it’s just a software thing