Hi Petition Signers, The worst case scenario is now upon us! On Thursday afternoon (24/10) the ACMA finalised the changes to the Minister's Emergency Calling Rules. The Government & Regulators are forcing the Telcos to Block 258,000 4G/5G Phones from 1 November!With 297,000 phones affected in total including 3G Devices! This INCLUDES devices that presently work perfectly for calling and emergency
  • BogusCabbage@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    21 days ago

    I’m late to all of this going on but now am very much impacted by it.

    The end of the BYOD phones. Using a Xperia 1 V that is now to be near to useless when out, and I am only 1 of 250,000+ people who are gonna be pushed into buying phone directly from telco instead of actually picking phones that suite our interests and needs (as well as OS for those running anything that isn’t adroid or iOS).

    I’ve contacted Sony to see if they will comment on the matter, but it is a shame this has happened at all in the first place.

    I would recommend anyone to read James Parkers full article on the matter:

    https://medium.com/@jamesdwho/australias-3g-shutdown-telcos-to-block-working-4g-5g-phones-2bf41e95de8a#a501

    I apologize If this isn’t the right place to post this.