[Vhfcn-l] Dead cell phone

[Jerry Feldman]

Wait until 6G next year and kte won't work

On Tue, Feb 7, 2023, 7:36 PM Don Armstrong via Vhfcn-l <
vhfcn-l at lists.vhfcn.org> wrote:

>   Recently I had intermittent troubles with my cell phone not working in
> areas it used to work then this weekend there was no cellphone voice
> service but data worked all the time. Just a month or two back on Rossen
> Reports he pointed out that 3G is going away but if your device is 4G
> compatible it is fine. Doing a bunch of research I found out that while
> my cell phone is a 4 G cell phone recent upgrades in the cell phone
> networks now requires that a 4 G capable phone also has to be a VOLTE
> capable phone in order for actual voice phone calls to work.. It stands
> for Voice Over LTE networks. I have a phone connected via straight Talk
> wireless but the trouble exists with Trac Phone also and anyone on the
> Verizon network. . Your data will work fine but you will have no
> connections on any attempted phone calls. I ended up buying a new 4G
> phone that has VOLTE capable and transferred my Sim card and it now
> works. I noticed that rather than the straight bars symbol for cell
> signal strength it is now marked LTE with a strength meter. My old phone
> is good for kids playing games on it but no phone service.
>
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