Hello multiplemiggs!

** On Monday 20.06.22 - 16:39, multiplemiggs wrote to poindexter FORTRAN:

That being said, I wonder what sort of market would be
available to T-mobi or another provider if they committed
to keeping their legacy networks around? Would there be
enough people with flip phones and 3G iphones to ma it a
selling point?

True. The cell companies keep us buying new phones with
planned obsolesce, and attempt to lure you in with another
3 year contract. I do wish there was just a basic phone
system that they would leave alone for talk and text. GSM
was fine for this, but is pretty much a thing of the past
and so is a nice compact little phone for just making calls
and sending texts.

Dunno about the rest of the world, but in Canada the three
biggest cellphone/cellservice companies offer econo-versions of
themselves that you can sign up with and manage totally
yourself:

Bell Canada has Luckymobile.
Rogers has Chatr
Telus has PublicMobile.

Perhaps less known is SpeakEasy.

All them, Luckymobile, Chatr, Publicmobile and Speakeasy have
options were you can "bring your own" existing phone. No
longterm contracts, no credit checks.


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