there’s a few people I know that’s been affected btw

i get that there’s a need for 3g to be shut down but there’s no need to ban phones with 4g data capability that can’t call without 3g (lacking voip implementation), the telcos could’ve just provided an app to do it because voip is just a protocol over ip

it’s pretty fucking obvious that the telcos bribed the government into forcing them to block these devices because they get more money that way, they don’t have to pay for the ewaste they artificially create and they don’t look bad because they can just say that they’re ‘forced by legislation’ to do so

iirc it’s all because of legislation that all 3 telcos have to adhere to so they’ll all do the same shit, also Telstra uses a shitty proprietary voip implementation so things like lineageos might not work

but there’s a melbourne in florida and that’s too funny to pass up