[Hendrikto]

You claim that they cannot be disabled, while this is already happening [0][1][2]. Some countries, like Switzerland, already completed the shutdown years ago [2].

[0]: https://newsroom.vodafone.de/2g-abschaltung-macht-lte-und-5g...

[1]: https://www.telekom.de/hilfe/2g-abschaltung

[2]: https://www.rosenberger-telematics.com/en/news/switching-off...

[alerighi]

It's easy to make the switch in a rich country with less than 10 millions of inhabitants, mostly living in big cities.

[Hendrikto]

Check out reference 2. This is being done across the whole of Europe. It has already been done in Australia.

[kristofferR]

It's the same "we can't introduce chip-and-pin because of all the credit card readers" argument that kept carding an issue a decade longer in the US than in the EU.