<story><title>“We&apos;re Shutting Down Our 3G Network”</title><url>https://benergize.com/2021/07/16/were-shutting-down-our-3g-network/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimmar</author><text>I have an old OnePlus phone that still works fine, but it won&amp;#x27;t work with AT&amp;amp;T&amp;#x27;s network changes. I called and AT&amp;amp;T said I could get an iPhone SE for free, but when the contracts came for me to confirm, there was no mention of getting a free phone, and instead I was committing to paying $400 over three years. The AT&amp;amp;T reps assured me I&amp;#x27;d get be credited at some point in the future and that the phone would end up being free, but I just don&amp;#x27;t trust them. It&amp;#x27;s crazy to me that something that happens as frequently as upgrading a phone requires so much manual intervention from human support representatives and it still doesn&amp;#x27;t work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>quaintdev</author><text>Wow this is crazy. In India, operators have no incentive in what handset their customer uses so they cannot interfer with user&amp;#x27;s choices.&lt;p&gt;Besides, they can&amp;#x27;t disable 3G&amp;#x2F;2G because of the sheer amount of people who still use these networks from villages.</text></comment>
<story><title>“We&apos;re Shutting Down Our 3G Network”</title><url>https://benergize.com/2021/07/16/were-shutting-down-our-3g-network/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jimmar</author><text>I have an old OnePlus phone that still works fine, but it won&amp;#x27;t work with AT&amp;amp;T&amp;#x27;s network changes. I called and AT&amp;amp;T said I could get an iPhone SE for free, but when the contracts came for me to confirm, there was no mention of getting a free phone, and instead I was committing to paying $400 over three years. The AT&amp;amp;T reps assured me I&amp;#x27;d get be credited at some point in the future and that the phone would end up being free, but I just don&amp;#x27;t trust them. It&amp;#x27;s crazy to me that something that happens as frequently as upgrading a phone requires so much manual intervention from human support representatives and it still doesn&amp;#x27;t work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chasil</author><text>I am on a OnePlus 5 via AT&amp;amp;T Red Pocket (mvno). The minimum supported OnePlus next year is the 6t.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.xda-developers.com&amp;#x2F;will-my-phone-work-on-att-after-3g-shutdown&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.xda-developers.com&amp;#x2F;will-my-phone-work-on-att-aft...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, I&amp;#x27;m using the Red Pocket &amp;quot;essentials&amp;quot; plan that I bought on eBay for $100 (1 year of service, unlimited texting, 1000 minutes, 1gb data per month).&lt;p&gt;Red Pocket didn&amp;#x27;t know anything about the XDA article, and forwarded it to a higher tier.&lt;p&gt;I think that I would have the option of switching my account to a T-Mobile Sim card, but I bought a pixel 3a xl, and loaded lineage sans gapps. I think Verizon becomes an option with this device.&lt;p&gt;It doesn&amp;#x27;t like my home WiFi, so I&amp;#x27;m upgrading to Gargoyle. This is going to be a project.&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of Pixels going out of support that will be cheap, and perfect for Lineage. Don&amp;#x27;t try to replace the battery (usually wrecks the display). The problem with old Pixels is that you won&amp;#x27;t get the Qualcomm updates.&lt;p&gt;On AT&amp;amp;T&amp;#x27;s conversion day, mvno customers will switch in great numbers.</text></comment>