3G NOT YET 3GONE

The eternal abiguity of end dates continues, it's the 28th of 
October yet 3G still works. Will it be turned off at the end of 
today or sometime during the day? My 4G modem still can't see 4G 
signal this morning either, so the longer 3G sticks around the 
better.

Also, demonstrating the sort of personality traits that make me so 
popular in cool circles, I sensed this as a prime opportunity to 
gather up all my 3G phones and modems/hotspots for a goodbye 
round-up:

gopher://aussies.space/I/~freet/photos/3Gone.jpg

Twenty of the things! The phone I use in the car is the one with a 
box (the only one I've had since new, sitting alongside its spare, 
which it turns out I never needed). The smartphone has only 
connected over WiFi anyway since I just use that for testing my 
websites in a phone browser (and it manages to annoy me enough just 
while I'm doing that). The USB modems and hotspots got a bit out of 
control due to me buying a couple of very cheap bulk lots and some 
that were network-locked to telco networks I switched between. But 
I do love to have spares such as for when one of the three long 
blue Telstra USB mobile broadband modems died, and it was 
interesting to see how the speed increased as the models progressed 
even though they all used 3G.

On 4G I've already got five devices, three of the used modems like 
the one that currently can't find 4G signal. One new flip phone for 
keeping in the car that turned out to be locked to the wrong 
network, in spite of my research, and couldn't be DIY unlocked by 
any means I can find online. Substituted by another new flip phone 
that my father didn't like while he was trying to upgrade from his 
3G flip phone, but it was unlocked so I'm going to use that in 
instead.

 - The Free Thinker.