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@Nath @Jumuta Networks made the commercial decision to ditch 3G years ago. But the legislation forcing them to block handsets due to 000 concerns is only a few weeks old.

The issue isn’t that the handsets don’t work on 4G or 5G, it’s that some dropped down to 3G for emergency calls. So the networks have been told to even block some of the handsets they sold as “4G”.

@zero_gravitas This guy has a (long) piece about why it’s a stupid thing to do in the way it’s being done. https://medium.com/@jamesdwho/australias-3g-shutdown-telcos-to-block-working-4g-5g-phones-2bf41e95de8a

Basically 300,000 devices will stop working Monday. And the owners of things like fall emergency panic buttons might not know they don’t work until they’re needed. Literally could cost lives.

Could also be fun for a lot of Melbourne’s MyKi card readers, if they’ve not managed to swap them all out yet (I did read it wasn’t completed yet as they’d not actually got the readers delivered)

@goodthanks @disguy_ovahea wait till you hear what happens to it after it’s collected to be sent to China.

People still talk about the time it all went to landfill anyway after this kind of political fuck-up
https://12ft.io/https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/please-keep-recycling-perth-urged-to-trust-the-system-after-landfill-crisis-20200226-p544oa.html

@Gorgritch_umie_killa The brewery is a bit further west and the road alongside it would make it difficult to embrace it in this project.
But yes, getting rid of the ridiculous Riverside Drive, the never-should-have-been-allowed car park and reconnecting the city to the river is welcome.
Hope they remember it’s a floodplain and don’t put anything too heavy on it like they did with the sinking exhibition centre

@Gorgritch_umie_killa only ever managed to see the numbats there a couple of times. They look fun though

@Gorgritch_umie_killa @Mountaineer I’d suggest there’d be a general feeling of “meh” if they were to make it west

@Gorgritch_umie_killa Last I read the limit was going to be 10 guns per licence holder. I’m not a firearm owner but to my ignorant ass, that seems enough. Happy to be educated on why it isn’t.