marshallarts Posted April 22 Posted April 22 For anyone interested, you can text the numeral "3" to 3498 and you will get back a text telling you whether your phone will be OK post 3G. Not sure how reliable it is, I think it's a Telstra thing. 2
onetrack Posted July 26 Posted July 26 (edited) The Testra "3G test" seems to work well. I'm with Boost, which is a division of Telstra anyway. I tried the 3498 test, and it came back with a message identifying my phone brand and model, and reassuring me I wasn't at any risk of loss of communication with my phone model. The interesting part though, is that the message doesn't address the fact that it's a service that is being withdrawn, so those services still using 3G for operations will simply no longer provide the requested service, if they have made no plans to move to some other bandwidth or communication protocol. 4G phones need to have VoLTE capability (and have it enabled), to be able to utilise the 000 emergency service after the 3G shutdown. How do I enable VoLTE on my mobile phone? - Telstra WWW.TELSTRA.COM.AU Find out what is VoLTE (Voice over LTE) and how to enable it on your mobile phone. If you want to find our your phones technical specifications relating to bandwidths built into it, GSMArena will provide you with the information pertaining to all the bandwidths your phone is capable of - provided you know the exact model of your phone. Once you have found and brought up your exact phone model on GSMArena, look at the RH end of the first line in the specifications - "NETWORK - Technology" - and you'll see a menu button that says "expand". Clicking the "expand" button gives you the full list of bandwidths that phone has installed. Be aware that mobile handsets of any particular model can have up to 20 different versions of that model, depending on the bandwidths it's capable of operating on, and where it was designed to be used in the world. The model code supplies the version information. GSMArena.com - mobile phone reviews, news, specifications and more... WWW.GSMARENA.COM GSMArena.com - The ultimate resource for GSM handset information Edited July 26 by onetrack addendum... 1
onetrack Posted July 26 Posted July 26 There's a good article on the ABC News site today about the 3G shutdown. If you're a total dinosaur and still using a 3G phone, the telcos are actually giving away 4G phones to those customers still using 3G phones, to ensure they aren't left abandoned! An item I thought interesting was the fact that the RFDS is a bit cheesed off about the 3G shutdown - and the dubious performance of the 4G replacement service - that they have opted to go over to the Starlink satellite service, at a pretty sizeable initial and annual cost to them. Australia's telcos are giving away free phones and gift vouchers, in last-minute bid to shift customers off 3G - ABC News WWW.ABC.NET.AU Telstra and Optus are offering free mobile phones to vulnerable Australians as they prepare to switch off the 3G network within weeks.
tillmanr Posted July 26 Posted July 26 I travelled in NE USA and Canada last month and noticed my phone was using 3G. Not everyone has shut it down. 1 1
spacesailor Posted July 26 Posted July 26 Too many people using old tech ' dumb ' handset's. spacesailor
tillmanr Posted July 26 Posted July 26 In some places I think that communication is more important than mindless social interactions. 1 1
Freizeitpilot Posted November 11 Author Posted November 11 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-12/3g-shutdown-connectivity-complaints-from-wa-farmers/104585296 Hmmmmmm. Have we been conned by the telcos ?
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