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October 2, 2009
Be Sure to Read Part One: Astroturf Overload — Broadband for America = One Giant Industry Front Group for an important introduction to what this super-sized industry front group is all about. Members of Broadband for America Red: A company or group actively engaging in anti-consumer lobbying, opposes Net Neutrality, supports Internet Overcharging, belongs to […]
October 2, 2009
Astroturf: One of the underhanded tactics increasingly being used by telecom companies is “Astroturf lobbying” – creating front groups that try to mimic true grassroots, but that are all about corporate money, not citizen power. Astroturf lobbying is hardly a new approach. Senator Lloyd Bentsen is credited with coining the term in the 1980s to […]
September 27, 2009
Hong Kong remains bullish on broadband. Despite the economic downturn, City Telecom continues to invest millions in constructing one of Hong Kong’s largest fiber optic broadband networks, providing fiber to the home connections to residents. City Telecom’s HK Broadband service relies on an all-fiber optic network, and has been dubbed “the Verizon FiOS of Hong […]
September 23, 2009
BendBroadband, a small provider serving central Oregon, breathlessly announced the imminent launch of new higher speed broadband service for its customers after completing an upgrade to DOCSIS 3. Along with the launch announcement came a new logo of a sprinting dog the company attaches its new tagline to: “We’re the local dog. We better be […]
September 23, 2009
Stop the Cap! reader Rick has been educating me about some of the new-found aggression by Shaw Communications, one of western Canada’s largest telecommunications companies, in expanding its business reach across Canada. Woe to those who get in the way. Novus Entertainment is already familiar with this story. As Stop the Cap! reported previously, Shaw […]
September 22, 2009
The Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission, the Canadian equivalent of the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, may be forced to consider American broadband policy before defining Net Neutrality and its role in Canadian broadband, according to an article published today in The Globe & Mail. [FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s] proposal – to codify and enforce some […]
September 21, 2009
In March 2000, two cable magnates sat down for the cable industry equivalent of My Dinner With Andre. Fine wine, beautiful table linens, an exquisite meal, and a Monopoly board with pieces swapped back and forth representing hundreds of thousands of Canadian consumers. Ted Rogers and Jim Shaw drew a line on the western Ontario […]
September 11, 2009
Just like FairPoint Communications, the Towering Inferno of phone companies haunting New England, Frontier Communications is making a whole lot of promises to state regulators and consumers, if they’ll only support the deal to transfer ownership of phone service from Verizon to them. This time, Frontier is issuing a self-serving press release touting their investment […]
September 7, 2009
I see it took all of five minutes for George Ou and his friends at Digital Society to be swayed by the tunnel vision myopia of last week’s latest effort to justify Internet Overcharging schemes. Until recently, I’ve always rationalized my distain for smaller usage caps by ignoring the fact that I’m being subsidized by […]
September 1, 2009
In 2007, we took our first major trip away from western New York in 20 years and spent two weeks an hour away from Calgary, Alberta. After two weeks in Kananaskis Country, Banff, Calgary, and other spots all over southern Alberta, we came away with the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Good Alberta […]
August 31, 2009
A federal appeals court in Washington has struck down, for a second time, a rulemaking by the Federal Communications Commission to limit the size of the nation’s largest cable operators to 30% of the nation’s pay television marketplace, calling the rule “arbitrary and capricious.” The 30% rule, designed to keep no single company from controlling […]
August 27, 2009
Less than half of Americans surveyed by PC Magazine report they are very satisfied with the broadband speed delivered by their Internet service provider. PC Magazine released a comprehensive study this month on speed, provider satisfaction, and consumer opinions about the state of broadband in their community. The publisher sampled more than 17,000 participants, checking […]
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Verizon Wireless customers with older devices still reliant on 3G CDMA technology will be able to continue using them on Verizon’s network until the end of 2020.
How long will Verizon support Motorola Motog7 Play, model XT1952-4?
That model is compatible with Verizon post CDMA, so you should be good to go. 🙂
How long will Verizon support StraightTalk’s CDMA home phone service?
Straight Talk already has a ZTE Home Phone device (Z723EL) that supports VoLTE. If you are still using a Huawei Home Phone device, then you need to upgrade to the ZTE in order to continue using the service.
Or you can get the Moxee Home Phone which also works with Verizon VoLTE service.
t’s gone today
My old 3G phone still works on January the twooth, 2020.
My 3g still works as of 3/11/20; however incoming texts have been seeing 24 hour delays & then they all rush in at once. That started about a week ago. I can send a txt & person gets it immediately; however their response takes at least a day or two to reach me now.
Is there any way to get a list of phones that will no longer be supported?
Amazing to think that t-mobile still has 2 g plans, one of which I’m grandfathered into. Once a year refill for $ ten and I can’t use them all. If it wasn’t so darn cheap I would have tossed it years ago. I also bought one of the best phones I’ve ever had as far as TALK goes, no fancy games or mindless texts on the Page plus ( Verizon network ) , a casio G’zone military type that you can drop on concrete or in water, doesn’t make any difference it still works. All for $ 30 a year.… Read more »
had 3g, was forced to go to 4glte… it sucks. service sucks, reception sucks and I had to buy a new phone. Verizon sucks
F.ck Verizon. Bunch of doll part collecting losers.
Well they notify the person then when it happens?
to hell with them my phone works perfect and does what need to do it cost $350 i dont need or want a $1200 dollar phone /computer
Before you get too pissed off, do you know if this even affects your phone? I can only imagine it would only affect a small number of phones. Also, worst case scenario, you could just buy another inexpensive phone.
I’m just a customer, but in my eyes, since technology is always progressing it doesn’t seem feasible that cell carriers should continue putting time & money into maintenance & repairs on tens of thousands (?) of ancient outdated cell towers, (which ultimately would fall back on customers anyway).
Also phones prices slightly cheaper if bout elsewhere (e.g. BestBuy, Amazon.com, even some independently owned verizon stores)
This really sucks. Only purpose I own a cell phone is to call and receive calls. That is why they created the telephone. I don’t need all the extra things smartphones do. Will definitely search out other cell phone providers to see their intentions on 3G. When I find a good provider… Bye, Bye Verizon.
there is not a flip phone out there that is as good as the samsung i’ve had for years, not even close. Bought a new alcatel because of, 4g making my 3g samsung obsolete. I cannot even hear the alcatel ring when a call comes in. The buttons are hard to press,the volume sucks, even set high as it will go.Cannot use bluetooth to transfer contacts, its sends them to a folder that you are unable to do anything with them. Everything about the alcatel sucks,if don’t believe me just buy one. If I cannot find a carrier that still… Read more »
I have a cheapy flip phone LG Tracfone I purchased at walmart where I buy time every 90 days. They say this 3G phone will expire and will have to purchase another 4G. Walmart has new 4G flip phones starting at $30.00 and will trf all my existing minutes to the new one. I usually go to the store and the guy in electronics adds the minutes for me. I’m an old lady and do not know how to do it. I called Tracfone and they said if I buy the phone online, they will help me trf it via… Read more »
My Samsung convoy 4 is still working!! 01-10-2021, I have a newer phone for the day they shut down 3g, but for now…….. I love this phone!
I’ve had my Convoy 4 for years but now it is starting to have problems. Never took care of it like I should have- always sitting on it without knowing when driving until it rang. I’ve been a Verizon customer when the company was GTE back in the 90’s. The best cell phone company is no longer, putting profits ahead of of it’s customers. What a shame! Can you hear me now?