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Has anyone unlocked a dumb phone (keypad phone) ?
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this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2023
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Even unlocked, it might not be capable of connecting to modern networks. Some of the older phones used bandwidths that the carriers no longer have towers for
Yeah I'm not sure if they had lte dumb phones yet 10 years ago. It might not work unless they're somewhere with really old cell networks.
Most of the operators still keep their 2G networks active. There's simply too many iot devices that use 2G as a main or fallback comms to end old gsm network with only few years of warning. 3G on the other hand is going the way of the Dodo.
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