[ashneo76]

The amount global electronics waste the disablement of 2G and 3G is going to be astonishing. 15 years of perfectly working devices, rendered useless.

And no 5G is not a replacement. I can manage perfectly fine doing remote work with hangouts/zoom calls on 4G when needed and jumping to 3G/2G for calls and text. If you need security then you can jump on internet.

The 2G/3G spectrum is not open for amateur development.

5G is just for pushing more data faster down people's throats.

The only got feature out of 5G will be open RAN.

Another form of manufactured obsolescence.

[tsjq]

I mostly agree. however: the turning off 2G & 3G : will free up frequencies to reuse in 4G which is more efficient (for the carriers) and better (for the users), no ?

[Avamander]

Theoretically it could free up frequencies to reuse with 5G as well. A better question IMHO is, will they use one of those frequencies to provide better long-range coverage?

[tsjq]

providing long range coverage might not be in the best interests of the service providers' pockets. might prefer to use fiber backhaul for long range.