• MicrowavedTea
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    19 days ago

    So to let people know that they won’t have emergency service during an emergency, they prevent them from having ANY service now (24-hour notice). Even if telecom companies behaved perfectly (which they wouldn’t) the initial idea was already a problem.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      You’d think they’b be able to… I dunno… SMS them about the problem, instead of cutting the service they pay for?

    • RubberDuck@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      Yes, the phones are non compliant and need to be barred. This is good. Everyone must be able to access emergency services in times of crisis. The fact some manufacturers make phones that don’t use 4g for this means their phones rely on outdated tech and standards and will be excluded.

      Railing against this is just weird.

      • MicrowavedTea
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        19 days ago

        Except they weren’t non-compliant before and this is punishing the users, not the manufacturers. I don’t even know what tech my phone uses for emergency services.

        • RubberDuck@lemmy.world
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          19 days ago

          So? Technology moves forward. So of you have a phone no longer compliant you need to get a replacement.

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            19 days ago

            These are not 20 year old phones. There’s a reason these transitions are made gradually.

          • quafeinum@lemmy.world
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            19 days ago

            That’s not how telecommunications work at all. You always have backwards compatibility and you don’t need perfect latency or beam forming to make an emergency call. Don’t kid yourself it is solely to fuck with consumers and to make more money somehow.

            Telcos in Australia have so far been the worst money grabbing vultures that I’ve ever seen. Like these motherfuckers would lock a PoE line to the MAC address of an networkadapter, so that you could use one machine and nothing more.

          • Darth_Mew@lemmy.world
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            18 days ago

            gooddamn your tongue must be raw from licking those corpo assholes all day. take a breather my man good lord!