[mellowagain]

This is honestly not a big deal in Switzerland. Almost everyone here uses messengers such as WhatsApp or Telegram.

I personally never had any SMS/MMS contact with any person in the past two years since I've had my phone.

What people need to understand is that once Swisscom decides something, people are going to migrate. Swisscom disabled the 2G network at the start of 2021 and people which still had old "dumb" phones migrated either over to smart or feature phones, which both support messengers such as WhatsApp.

Swisscom realized this and is now getting rid of a feature that was practically unused, making their tech stack simpler. Totally understandable and most likely not a big loss for anyone except a few.

[_trampeltier]

I'm from Switzerland and don't use WhatsApp because of Facebook. So I have to contact with some people just over SMS/MMS.

[emsy]

Fax them a complaint.

[yumraj]

I'm in the US and don't use WhatsApp because of Facebook.

I use SMS, Signal and iMessage.

[thisfro]

Signal or threema are no options for you?

[yumraj]

Had never heard of threema, so had to look it up. Looks interesting, a little like ICQ it seems..

Have always wondered if ICQ should make a comeback, so good to see something like it exists.

[_trampeltier]

I have Threema and Signal, but not all other persons. Most friends and family are on Threema. On work we use Signal as group chat.

[Notanothertoo]

Signal