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by zephyr9 1616 days ago
I'm in Australia and I think there's a law that carriers need to keep an amount of 3G coverage. So we will likely lose 4G coverage before 3G. Regulation FTW!
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I think it might only be around for another couple of years -- Telstra is switching theirs off in 2024, and Optus is pretty soon too.
Government-granted spectrum monopolies... two wrongs make a right I guess.