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> This Industry has tried to pretend that 4G devices that rely on 3G for 000 are ‘hardwired’ this way and the only solution is to buy new devices, when that could not be further from the truth.
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> Blocking handsets is to entirely sweep the compatibility problem under the rug. > > By making this change, the industry and regulators are entirely absolved of any responsibility or accountability for failing to properly address the issues with Calling and Emergency Calling over 4G.
Industry has captured government and policy throughout capitalist countries. We're at the end-stages of capitalism having any veneer of good for society. It'll just keep getting worse and worse as we pay more and corporations deliver less.
Remember when you could go to the bank and there was an adequate number of tellers? Maybe that's still the case where you live. Not where I am.
Remember when you could call customer service and get help within a reasonable wait time? Good luck getting to a human being without mashing the numpad and repeatedly telling the robot you want a human / operator / other.
Remember when wages rose with inflation? I don't. I wasn't born early enough to experience that. But I've seen the graphs.
Remember when unions had collective bargaining power? That's been true more or less for the first time in my life in recent years. It's about the only shred of hope I've got for this system.
TLDR: every deal with a corporation is designed for us to lose and it will only become more so with time.