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I'm late to all of this going on but now am very much impacted by it.
The end of the BYOD phones. Using a Xperia 1 V that is now to be near to useless when out, and I am only 1 of 250,000+ people who are gonna be pushed into buying phone directly from telco instead of actually picking phones that suite our interests and needs (as well as OS for those running anything that isn't adroid or iOS).
I've contacted Sony to see if they will comment on the matter, but it is a shame this has happened at all in the first place.
I would recommend anyone to read James Parkers full article on the matter:
https://medium.com/@jamesdwho/australias-3g-shutdown-telcos-to-block-working-4g-5g-phones-2bf41e95de8a#a501
I apologize If this isn't the right place to post this.
I don't think BYOD has anything to do with this. It's just kicking devices off the network because their modems won't support VoLTE. You can still buy an outright phone and flash whatever ROM you want on it.
No. This includes 4G and 5G devices. 3G devices will just stop working when the 3G network is shut down and don't need to be blocked.
My phone is set to LTE only in my modem config, all of my calls are via VoLTE, my phone will still be blocked.