Paul Wise <pa...@bonedaddy.net> wrote: > In 2017, AT&T will be shutting down their GSM network in the USA in > favour of 3G/4G.
If AT&T likes losing customers, it's their choice. I use T-Mobile (satisfied customer since 2003 with just one short break before I entered the libre phone scene in 2011), and I saw somewhere that although they are reducing GSM/2G capacity, they will leave a tiny sliver around. A tiny sliver is all I need. > Macau is planning to shut down their GSM services in > June 2015. Yeah, I saw that news a while back and crossed Macau off the list of places I would ever want to live or do business in. > I would hazard a guess that GSM will be shut down worldwide > at some point, probably sooner in the USA. So eventually GTA02 and > Calypo will be less useful for communication as they would need an > external device or some method of device-to-device communication like > the Serval Mesh. What is your plan for the transition away from GSM? The plan is simple: if GSM service in my current neck of the woods gets shut down, move to some tiny island banana republic where getting a "spectrum license" to operate my own GSM cell just for my family's own use would be as simple and inexpensive as befriending/bribing the local drug czar who is the de facto owner of the island. VLR, SF _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
