Yes. That’s the point of this fee, to nudge people to upgrade those decades old systems that are forcing the carriers to maintain old (and much less spectrum efficient) equipment (with no parts support from the manufacturer any more).
They had to do similar to push the same stragglers off the old 1G (analog/TDMA) network 15 years ago.
Yes. That’s the point of this fee, to nudge people to upgrade those decades old systems that are forcing the carriers to maintain old (and much less spectrum efficient) equipment (with no parts support from the manufacturer any more).
They had to do similar to push the same stragglers off the old 1G (analog/TDMA) network 15 years ago.
They have enough money to support those systems, they just want to push everyone to new, more expensive systems.
Even if they can’t get spare parts or repaired modules or software updates from the manufacturer any more?
Yeah the corp with 75Billion profit last year doesn’t have enough to fabricate parts or hire programmers, lol