Most (all?) Canadian carriers shut down/are shutting down 2G and 3G, so older phones don’t work at all.
It also means that locations that have spotty 4G connectivity can have big dead zones now, for non-5G-enabled devices, that used to be covered by 3G bands.
Even some 5G phones are affected. Like, I have an international model phone that has most but not all Rogers 4G/5G bands that used to fall back to 3G, but now is just worse.
definitemaybe@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Most (all?) Canadian carriers shut down/are shutting down 2G and 3G, so older phones don’t work at all.
It also means that locations that have spotty 4G connectivity can have big dead zones now, for non-5G-enabled devices, that used to be covered by 3G bands.
Even some 5G phones are affected. Like, I have an international model phone that has most but not all Rogers 4G/5G bands that used to fall back to 3G, but now is just worse.