If your provider is unable to verify VoLTE support for your device, it may be blocked from Australian networks from the 1st of November 2024.
- desktop_user ( @desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•2 months ago
seems like an unideal solution that will stop devices that still have uses (old phone as a media player) from being used.
Not to mention the E-waste and easily preventable deaths caused by not being able to dial emergency services. This is gross negligence at best and mass murder at worst.
- desktop_user ( @desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•2 months ago
emergency services is the only excuse I can think of to justify preventing phones without vo-lte from connecting.
- josephb ( @josephb@aussie.zone ) 2•2 months ago
A good summary video.
- No1 ( @No1@aussie.zone ) 2•2 months ago
Oh, forgot to mention:
You can SMS 3 to the number 3498 and it will check your device!
- No1 ( @No1@aussie.zone ) 1•2 months ago
Australia: “Fuck you, tourists. Your overseas phones don’t work here!”
Also, the fact that VoLTE is not truly standardised, and 4G and 5G have no standardised method of calling is just a bad joke.
“Let’s have a phone standard without a standard way of phone calls!”