Almost all things you buy are engineered to be made as cheaply as possible... some are designed to break after a specified period. Apple is artificially doing this with software updates when they decide to. I also suspect other device manufacturers of doing the same thing.
T-Mobile has done this. They re-purposed all their radio towers by turning off 3G and HSPA/HSPA+ radios. Now everyone on T-Mobile using a phone that doesn't have an LTE 4G radio is forced to Edge speeds.
The FCC is about to obsolete every TV ever made again by changing over to a different incompatible broadcast system. Didn't they just do that in 2009? Hang on to your wallets. Hold off buying that new TV.
Is that's what's going on with 3G? I recently got a sim card that supports LTE, it cost like nothing I waited so long because I didn't bother updating. Put it in my phone that supported LTE this whole time.
The speed difference is ridiculous. It's faster than the connection in most airbnb's.
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vastrightwing ago
Almost all things you buy are engineered to be made as cheaply as possible... some are designed to break after a specified period. Apple is artificially doing this with software updates when they decide to. I also suspect other device manufacturers of doing the same thing.
T-Mobile has done this. They re-purposed all their radio towers by turning off 3G and HSPA/HSPA+ radios. Now everyone on T-Mobile using a phone that doesn't have an LTE 4G radio is forced to Edge speeds.
The FCC is about to obsolete every TV ever made again by changing over to a different incompatible broadcast system. Didn't they just do that in 2009? Hang on to your wallets. Hold off buying that new TV.
MrKequc ago
Is that's what's going on with 3G? I recently got a sim card that supports LTE, it cost like nothing I waited so long because I didn't bother updating. Put it in my phone that supported LTE this whole time.
The speed difference is ridiculous. It's faster than the connection in most airbnb's.
vastrightwing ago
Unfortunately 4G LTE requies specific hardware in your phone. If your phone isn't equipped with it, a SIM card won't help.