@@dertythegrower That depends on what it's being used for. Like if latency isn't a concern, then sure you could go with those other options that you mentioned, but 5G is probably always going to be the next best thing to fixed connections.
@@dertythegrower Yeah, other options include free decentralized wifi hotspots and ISP's created using IoT which are not only effectively free but which also pay money to owners of devices for allowing their devices to forward/relay communications between sender and intended reciever. So, why are people still paying for centralized internet connections with decentralized options available?
I don't call tech support. I just put the sim card in and it works. I don't fall for their hard sells on the phone. I am very knowledgeable about tech, it is hard for someone with less tech knowledge to sell me on their ideas. Rob, I feel you are like me. You don't take the bull and let them know they are stupid.
not really. got a new phone (oneplus 9) in december, it was working, like you said. 2 weeks ago ATT started to play a voice msg before each call, saying my phone not 5g compatible, i will have to upgrade my phone... Last week, I couldnt receive any calls, went to voice mail. I had to call them... wasted hours, then I had to go to the corporate store (not just any ATT) and it took 5 hours to fix this simple thing.
These types are so stupid they will never know that even if you tried to explain. It's all about honesty. Smart people are honest, where stupid people get by with lying. For example the Huawei firm does not need to lie. It's in the lead.
@@nedudki your phone was using 3G for voice calls so it got flagged in their system. Some phones don't have the option to turn on VoLTE/HD voice/Enhanced Voice etc. Samsung phones are like this where the toggle isn't available to you and you have to wait for the software update that turns on VoLTE. Your phone may support VoLTE but if it doesn't get updates anymore, you may never get the update that turns on the feature that the phone has the capabilities to work with the change.
TH-cam tells you a livestream is going to happen. It even lets you press a button for a reminder. But it also lets you on the page where the livestream will happen and the comment section is open for comment just like it would be after a livestream has aired. I think it's different from a live comment section.
That is what our problem turned out to be. We have been using Red Pocket mobile with ATT as the carrier. When 3G went away, my wife's phone stopped working. I went to the settings to see if I could turn on VoLTE, and it was greyed out, unable to turn on. So, we switched back to a T-Mobile MVNO, and it now works again. Apparently ATT has been doing this to a lot of folks. My wife's phone was made in 2019. Not old by any means.
My family members still use their flipped phones and it’s working well so far with no interruption. Who needs a smartphone when they are in their 90’s!! Totally scam!!!
But why wouldn't you want a phone that can, if you want it, run endless apps? Do people carry a Bible in their pockets? "They is an app for that", as they say. Does a mere flip-phone contain a calculator? You are already carrying a charged battery, and perhaps a camera. Why not also the apps and capabilities to make it useful? Can a flip-phone even share photos with a friend or somebody who made need the photo or evidence? Can you email or text a photo to somebody else on a flip-phone? Many things that require a computer, will get by with a browser on a smart-phone. The smart-phone aspect seems like a "Duh! freebee" to me. Does your car really "need" a radio? Yet it probably has a radio/music system. But you do not need all the usual stupid apps, like manipulated FB, Big-Tech-censored Twitter, etc., presumably some stupid apps may compromise your privacy. Can't all that social media be accessed through the phone browser which likely has far better security? Phones are so last-century. Today's smart-phones are computers that oh BTW, makes phones calls. Just one of its many apps. But I do feel that way concerning 5G. Whatever would 5G do for me? Nothing at all?
@@yosefmacgruber1920 "But why wouldn't you want a phone that can, if you want it, run endless apps?" Because I have a computer at home that has no microphone or camera connected, so it can't spy on me. "Do people carry a Bible in their pockets? "They is an app for that", as they say." No. I carry it in my bag. An app on a phone requires electricity, but my paper Bible is always available. "Does a mere flip-phone contain a calculator?" Yes, actually it does, but I never use mine, because I have a brain. "You are already carrying a charged battery, and perhaps a camera. Why not also the apps and capabilities to make it useful?" Because it's already useful. "Can a flip-phone even share photos with a friend or somebody who made need the photo or evidence? Can you email or text a photo to somebody else on a flip-phone? Many things that require a computer, will get by with a browser on a smart-phone." If it's important, then it can usually wait until you get back home, and if not, then just take the SD card out of your camera, and plug it into a nearby computer. You don't need a web browser on your phone. Anything that requires a web browser can wait until you get back home or to your office. Carry a notebook, if your are forgetful. "The smart-phone aspect seems like a "Duh! freebee" to me." Then you probably don't know how much your "smart" phone is spying on you, or how easy it is to hack it, or how it makes you dumber by offloading too many mental tasks from your actual brain. Remember, your brain has great plasticity, so it constantly adapts to whatever demands you place on it, so if you reduce the demands too much, by offloading all mental operations to a "smart" (really a dumb) phone, then your brain adapts by either becoming dumber or developing neurological disorders. "Does your car really "need" a radio? Yet it probably has a radio/music system." Yes, also your car radio doesn't spy on you, it doesn't make you retarded or mentally ill, and it doesn't have access to your bank account! "But you do not need all the usual stupid apps, like manipulated FB, Big-Tech-censored Twitter, etc., presumably some stupid apps may compromise your privacy." ALL SMARTPHONE APPS compromise your privacy! "Can't all that social media be accessed through the phone browser which likely has far better security?" Can't it wait until you get back home or to the office? If people really need to get a hold of you, they can still just call or text you, right? "Phones are so last-century." Says the idiot who literally carries one in his pocket every day... Yeah, right! "Today's smart-phones are computers that oh BTW, makes phones calls. Just one of its many apps." That's exactly the problem. All computers can be hacked and used as spying devices, so why the Zuck would you carry one on your person all the time, which has a camera, and a microphone, and a GPS that can all never be disconnected? Why would you use this same computer for online banking and sensitive communication? Are you insane? Why would you not leave this device at home, and carry a simple cell phone, that literally doesn't have enough processing power to run spyware, and only contains a list of contacts and your latest text messages, making it a lower value target for hackers? "But I do feel that way concerning 5G. Whatever would 5G do for me? Nothing at all?" What would a "smart" (dumb) phone do for you, besides exposing you to all kinds of unnecessary dangers?
@@Michael-Archonaeus And how do you know that your flip-phone isn't spying on you? Is a non-social media Bible app any more likely to be spying on you? I thought that the evil Left was sort of religion-phobic? So of course, they would want you to read the Bible? I never said that all apps are safe. In fact, the more crap sotware that you put onto a computer, the moe unstable and sluggish or bloated that it seems to become? So what then would be the point of installing unwanted or unused apps? Not worth the risk, if they offer no benefit. Sort of like the ControlYaVirus coerced vs? And what for do I want to lug a giant $100s camera and its back-back around for? Am I a professional photographer? Yes, I do carry a notebook. Paper and pen. Old-fashioned much? If you are so paranoid that that calculator app might be spying on you, then have you opened up your desktop computer and your smart-phone, to insure that there is no secret microphone in there? Of course the evil deep state may have bugged your light fixtures or your A/C vents. Have you checked them lately? Funny thing is, most all our phone lines have been bugged for decades, and all your emails are likely archived by the deep state. What do you think those humongous data centers are for? That means that your old-tech corded phone is not secure if everybody's phone lines are being recorded. But if you had an encryption app to talk to certain friends, that might actually be safe. But flip-phones won't run stuff like that. Somebody rear-ends you. Sure, get out that fancy huge non-internet-connected DSLR-whatever camera that you left at home, and not a smart-phone to take photos of damage and the license tag? You take your phone everywhere so that Big Bad government can track you, but you do not take a humongous camera bag everywhere. Some people do not have such professional cameras. Some people do not have computers and their internet device then is their phone. Why does the deep state need to put a microphone onto you, when you post all your personal details on FB? Oh sure, maybe you are too smart for that, but what of all your so-called friends who know all about you? If you value the Holy Bible, yeah that is always a good idea. Make sure that you also have paper Bibles that are not dependent upon having a functional economy so that you can pay your electric bill. In addition to your many Bible apps. Have a Plan B. EMP may be supposedly unlikely, do you thin that the evil deep state wants people actually thinking for themselves once their liar TVs no longer work and can tell them what to think?, but if the "unthinkable" happens, you will very likely want to spend more time in God's Word. And paper books might better survive some "book-banning" than apps that might get yanked out of your devices. Just how many back-doors or font-doors are there? Just one connection to the cell-towers and poof it is gone? But then if you are homeless and own nothing, then nobody can steal from you? Bette then to be homeless? Imagine the zombie apocalypse once the cell-phones no longer work. Imagine the withdrawal pains. Imagine all the morons who don't know how think, suddenly having to think. In the _Star Trek_ future, maybe there is some plausible story why no computers are needed, yet they have computers in just about every device and room. Why is that? Maybe they are all open-source with no back doors? Maybe we do not "need" lights in every room? Why not be Amish? I agree with how the Amish largely ignored ControlYaVirus "plan-demic" and decided that faith in God and getting natural immunity was the way to go. Like we all do not have reasons to distrust Big Pharma and Big Brother corrupt evil government? Why can't you just use a free-energy flashlight every night? And I once calculated change all the time in my head, back when I delivered pizzas. Big whoop. So what? Pulling out a calculator would be much too slow. Do you know how many cashiers could not calculator change if their cash registers glitched or their customer changes the amount of cash? I still have numerous fancy calculators. How can I be the "mad-scientist" that I want to be, without mad-science tools? I also have several calculator apps. Your flip-phone calculator probably doesn't even do proper algebraic order of operations. And I hardly consider -E- to be the correct answer to the square root of a negative number. I thought the mathematicians settled that, now many centuries ago? Solution is obvious. More apps. What else is all that memory storage for? Oh, yeah, to fill up with movies and videos, or your photos. But it looks like Rob Braxman uses a smart-phone. Gasp! De-Googled but of course, because Professor Google these days seems to be far too cozy with leftism and Big Brother government and censorship because evil leftists are crap when it comes to debate.. And I am now a newbie Linux user. Do I get any points with you for that? The audacity of thinking that Apple or MyCrud$oft should not own my OS. How easy it is to hack it? So then you are one of the few holdouts on rejecting "smart" electricity meters? Pleas do tell us about what they have hidden in there, as that has the real makings of a conspiracy. Can they really tell what TV channel you are watching just by measuring the electrical fluctuations in current/signal? I am quite sure that the world will not end horribly by 2020 just because every person does not have a "smart" meter within 50 feet of where they sleep. Might it have anything to do with the "plan-demic"? Does 5G have anything to do with it also? Yes, I do buy into at least some of the so-called "conspiracy theories". Really I do. Why not everything that requires a -smart-phone- _phone_ can wait until you get home or to the office? That is what most everybody thought back when car-phones were an expensive toy that only rich people could afford. BTW, have you seen a payphone lately? And using the library computers, that is what poor or homeless people do. And once you log into an account, they know where you are anyway. So whatever happened to books of tables of logarithms? One person couldn't calculate that in a reasonable amount of time, now obsoleted even by cheap calculators. Brain can adapt? By only so much. How do you know that your car radio does not spy on you? They are usually computers now, might even have some connection to the cell-network. Do you drive some ancient car with nothing like On-star? You still have the slot where the audio cassettes go in? And the radio does cause mental illness if you listen to rap-is-crap. I am concerned about the devil-noise coming out of obnoxiously-loud cars. It almost never is bluegrass, classical, or the local Christian radio station. Why is that? Whatever the crap are people listening to these days? No wonder they seem oblivious to that the Left and the TV are liars? They already have serious brain damage, as evidenced by their ugly tattoos and drug problems, and now the jab has further turned them into dying zombies. No access to your bank account? Well with the "internet of all things", which you apparently buy into at least just a little, as I notice that you are not Amish technologically-impaired, they will link your political views or your support for the truck convoy protestors or a comment that you posted somewhere, to your bank account, but then maybe they will crash the dollar anyway. Ready for the re-education camps? Just a few more false flags away? And flip-phones compromise your privacy. Did you pay cash for your "burner phone" and buy from a store with no security cameras? Didn't you watch _Enemy Of the State_ ? He made a call from an "anonymous" payphone, and Big Tech deep state computer data center matched his voice. Maybe we should pass around pieces of paper for communication, then eat or burn the evidence? A de-Googled phone probably makes more sense than being _smart-phone_ phobic. Didn't I hear Rob say something about what sort of apps that you should not be putting on your phone? Why does he promote smart-phones if to have no apps? Although maybe somebody should assemble a list of supposedly more-secure apps? Are you really going to convince your friends to give up all their apps? And to never take your photo? I have long been suspicious of apps such as FB. Whatever can it do beneficial that wouldn't work in the mobile view of a browser? Seems redundant to also need the connection to the mother ship. I have long thought that apps should be mostly independent of the mother ship, still work even when you have no cell-signal. Even some GPS navigation apps need no data or cell-signal having the map previously downloaded. Apps tend to get way too many questionable permissions on the off chance that you might rarely use some supposed feature. Or they need access to internet so that they can push annoying ads onto you. Not everything is actually "free". But some games are kind enough to turn off ads simply by turning off wifi and data, so that the game plays without interruptions. Which is about how I would program my "free" app, as I don't want potential customers to uninstall. Why not leave the computer/smart-phone at home, and just carry around a simple phone that hardly does anything but listen in on you and track you, you ask? Why not carry around a paper notebook and leave the pen to write with at home? Why do something in a sensible way when you can do it halfway?
Sadly I had to learn all this before this video came out. AT&T stopped supporting any phone not sold by them. My unlocked factory BlackBerry Key2 was one such phone. They first told me their network wouldn't support it. Then after painting them into a corner with the phone's specs, they finally admitted it was just because Blackberry doesn't make or support their own phones, and therefore doesn't "pay to play." One of the customer service reps told me that AT&T is given incentives by the manufacturers to carry their phones. They then receive phones from the manufacturer that they can load their own software on and put their logo on. These are the phones sold by the carriers. A factory unlocked phone is as the manufacturer intended, and sometimes has features and capabilities outside of what the carrier wants you to have. This is another reason why AT&T and others are outright rejecting certain specific phones. I have since switched to T-Mo and am still using my Key2 with zero issues and better cell service!
Still running the same Blackberry Key2 for now. Had it since 2018 with zero issues. Stopped updating some apps because of how invasive google was becoming. On T-Mobile now with better reception and 4G LTE. Calls are in HD most of the time. I'll see how long it lasts.
@@dune2024 It’s a shame because AT&T is the best carrier in my area. Verizon works, but it’s not quite as good. T-Mobile is utter trash in my area (even in the city).
They have been screwing us over since the telephone and postal service was privatised. The year of that happening depends on the country you're in. I remember the Telekom CEO saying in 1992 the internet and mobile phone will not gain momentum, no need to invest. Keep on doing copper wire.
@@Thumper68 the usps isn't private. I was talking more general. The Telekom Rob mentions is a German company that was "created" when the government partly privatised the German Post. The company got all the hardware in the cities, the streets, all the wires etc basically for free and can ever since make profit for a few rich, while the people don't even get fast internet. In Germany there is only one other big internet and telephone provider, Vodafone. It's a dipole ripping off people. In the USA the telecommunication companies were also private or privatised long ago. The same is true for UK, France, ... You name it. It's the same old game of governments selling the people's silver wear.
The internet of things and they are also working on the internet of bodies, sad to say. Truthers like Rob are so very important. I feel a learned helplessness about tech, given personal issues with feeling trapped by hacking and cyberstalking going on for many years. I am blocked from even calling my brother.
I'm old enough to have witnessed the main development in mobile. The mass was so enthralled by Nokia Symbian back around 2004 and IOS and Android pushed us to be for-ever connected and other platforms were pushed to oblivion. Here in my country I have only so little chance to use platform other than those spying ones since most of our daily aspects have been digitalized so we *need* to embrace it whether we agree or not. Today, 2G is still active in my country, but use 2G in development country, where all the service are being digitalize so much so that the government are embracing it, is becoming challenging. Thank you Rob, you have been enlightening us so far.
I'm switching back and forth between old 2G and 3G phones lol I'm having fun using old depreciated phones that I could never afford back in the day. Right now I'm using the HTC S740, what a beautiful cell phone!
In Germany they switched off 3G and shifted frequencies to LTE and 5G. BUT: there is no 5G standalone live, just testing from Vodafone. As long as they have 4G and 5G via dynamic spectrum sharing, there is no need for a 5G contract. Fortunately, they did not block older phones. In the German networks (Telefonica, T-Mobile, Vodafone) Volte and Wi-Fi-call works even with my G6 plus.
Problem: I live in a rural area and the only carrier that works out here is AT&T, a company I have grown to despise. NO SERVICE, only robots answer phones - and yes they have issued edit that if anyone who has a 3g phone will wake up to discover they have no service.
Thank you, Rob, for this timely and important information. I actually am still using an LG G Stylo that I bought new in 2016. I'm a Metro PCS customer which is T Moble. So far, so good for me.
I've been noticing sometimes my phone doesn't even ring with verizon. I thought it might be my older phone, but people with brand new phones are having the same issues. I've realized that the subscriber is no longer is the biggest payer isn't the consumer, it the data purchasing entities. Us users are no longer the priority.
Rob, you hit the jackpot on this 1. I've been angry about this for a long time and been telling everyone but nobody will do anything about it. I think we need to say to hell with 5g and reuse the 3g networks that there's nothing wrong with.
my question is, since 3g is a different bandwidth (ENTIRELY) than 4g-5g etc WHAT the hell, or WHO the hell, is opening this bandwith for ? just like amazon trying to buy civilian airspace... it goes on and on . fcc is to blame as well (federal communications) they are the main culprit POS ,don't even get me started on drones. but same category.
The 3G bands are slated to be handed over to other users in the next few years - "emergency services" mostly - they've already been on there for a couple of years around these parts - so the need to designate it specifically and only to them is kind of questionable... but don't dare argue with FCC over it...
There are a lot of technical reasons why LTE is better than 3G, which is an inefficient use of band space. The problem is not the technology, but rather the policies of the carriers who don't want to support a large number of older phones. The first VoLTE phones were sold in mid-2014, and most phones sold since 2017 support VoLTE.
Rob, with al due respect, in the US there was a major FTC action being brought against carriers advertising 4G, because in the rest of the world this is 4GLTE. In the US, AT&T notibly advertised 3G with a high speed backbone. The government suit was dropped only after the ITU gave US carriers to call 3G with enhanced backbone 4G --but not 4G LTE. So in the US, plain 4G is still being dropped as part of 3G. You need an LTE service for the phone to continue working. And that's only if it has the proper bands.
That's a different service you're talking about. I believe that's called 3G-HSPDA which is not in this category. I don't recall them referring to that as 4G in recent memory. Possibly before...in the early stages of LTE
My phone is entertaining to watch some days. It will cycle through 2G, 3G, H, H+, LTE, LTE+, 5G and of course no service. This could be because the wind blew or a mouse farted. Any thoughts on why the old networks pop up?
@@robbraxmantech Yes, it was in the early stages of 4G. The slam dunk lawsuit was big news. The clever trick of getting the ITU to redefine the meaning of 4G was an incredible way to make the suit moot.
@@robbraxmantech makes me feel old but yea I remember this. If you were connected to lte it would show lte but if it showed 4g it was HSDPA+ aka 3g with a fiber back bone. In latter years it reversed 4g would show for an lte connection and H+ would show for HSDPA+. Seems like the carriers always pull this stuff with the next generation.
Switching from At&t to Verizon activated the VoLTE! Also, switching to T-mobile SIM for test also activated VoLTE. Let's get out of this nonsense from At&t.
I really appreciate you making this video. AT&T in particular has caught a lot of people by surprise by all this nonsense. Service turned off or phones being denied service for no good reason. I got dropped by Cricket Wireless from AT&T and lost service. Luckily I had another Sim Card at the time that I could use. It wasn't an unlimited one like I had with Cricket though. I ended up going back to Simple Mobile, which uses T-Mobile. I've used that every since with no real issues.
That's all excellent information & good to know. It's great to armed with information & prepared for all eventualities - just in case there are problems with the carrier. I assume that if I just put my exising SIM (which has already been activated) from my existing phone handset, into my new (Brax2) phone handset - it should all work fine. Looking forward to getting my new Brax2 phone from batch 4. I understand that batch 4 is due to be shipped by the end of this week, but it may be a little while before I receive it via international post. My country's postal service is not exactly renowned for its speedy delivery times - though occasionally they do surprise me. I recently received 3 items in the post much more quickly than I expected - though they were not items from overseas. I guess if one lowers one's expectations to start with, one will never be disappointed, & can only be pleasantly surprised if delivery is quicker than expected. It's disappointing to note, however, that some mobile phone carriers are obviously trying to take advantage of their customers, by telling them they need to purchase a new phone handset, because their existing handset is not compatible, when that is not the case at all. It's obviously a good money-making venture, if people then purchase a new handset from them, as a result. Or it might even be a deliberate rort/scam, on the part of the carriers. Perhaps the trick is to just change carriers to one where one's phone handset will be accepted as compatible & supported. And make sure that the existing carrier knows that you are changing carriers, & the reasons for it. And give them some bad publicity in the process.
Thanks for the explanation. I tried PureTalk (AT&T) with a Samsung phone which worked until the 3G networks were abandoned. The very same phone works just fine with Mint and has 5G capability. I realized that ‘incompatibility’ was a carrier problem and not a device problem. It was clear that PureTalk would never work again, so I cancelled them and got a new number with Mint/T-Mobile. Fortunately, my primary service is Verizon with an iPhone 13, so I could ditch PureTalk.
I was with straight talk for 10 years, recently Version bought them out... They sent me a notice stating my phone A Galaxy S9+ would no longer work on their system, and I would have to change phones... They led me to a link of phones they sell... The exact phone I have was on that list for as much as I paid for it... That is exactly why I left Version for Straight talk... Version goes out of their way to rip you off...
I use ATT - I used a KeyOne (ATT branded, and would still work) but after 4 years, it got to the point I can't use it as a phone. So... I grabbed my old phone (a Blackberry Passport, also ATT branded, with 4G-LTE and VOIP) and slapped my sim into it - it immediately came up with a message that any call attempted would go to ATT customer service in order to arrange buying a new phone. ATT is looking at the IMEIs and blocking anything not specificially white listed. It's scummy - and I ended up with a different phone than I wanted (I wanted a Unihertz Titan, ended up with an LG) - and for now that's ok - but I know I want a different phone not on their list. So depending on who will let them on their network, I may or may not be able to get the phone I actually want. As I said, it's scummy. Also, they use hiding behind the "E-911" rules coming into effect, but anyone who understands how this stuff works knows its pretty much crap on their part.
I'm with AT&T and got caught up in their 3g sunset. I was without cell service for 4 days. I was on the phone with tech support for 1 1/2 hours to get my phone working again. They tried to get me signed up with a new phone (I have a Samsung note 9) and works just fine. AT&T had to reset my sim card to get it working. I demanded to be compensated for loss of service. They only gave me a $15 dollar credit on my bill. I'm switching to T-Mobile. T-Mobile seems to be more into actually serving customers.
@@cooperb4449 they also tried to get me to change phones because of this silly 3G nonsense. I paid the phone off and switched to Ting. I now pay $25 a month. I'm on wifi most of the time so no need for unlimited plan. Now I have a cheaper plan. Tmobile was ripping me off and too woke for me.
@@JackOwens T mobile ripped me off for years. I see a lot of these comments switch to them and have a positive experience but I’ve had none. At least with my Verizon phone I was able to switch to a new SIM card whereas t mobile didn’t let me do
we now have dial phones at home and no cell phones when we are out. Why? In an emergency, everyone else has one. But, I went to a simple pager so people can reach me in emergencies
That's a pretty good idea. I heard pagers are harder to track because they don't broadcast only receive. Plus the added benefits of having no wifi, Bluetooth, or spyware apps.
At my office with 4G i could watch vidoes and surf the internet no problem, never waiting longer that 20 seconds for anything to load, only 1 place in the center of the building has almost no connection with 4G. Now with 5G i can stand right next to a window, looking at the tower in the distance and still wait at least a minute for a simple video to load in 720P, sometimes it doesnt even load, my phone will say i have 4 out of 5 bars of 5G but it can barely load a simple youtube video in 720p. I personally think 5GE is a slow burning pile of garbage when compared to 4G. Thats just my experiences
It's because they're using the extra (but hidden to you) throughput for surveillance and data mining. Since the range and signal strength of 5G is worse than 4G, the first thing that will be compromised is the end user experience.
@@utewbd nah. The extra bandwidth is used by other users. There are 2 technologies using the same antenna: 4G and 5G (through band sharing). The companies provide 4G signal to most users and reserve a few Mhz for 5G in order to have the buzzword and ads that they're "5G capable". The reality is that there is so litle bandwidth asigned to 5G in those same antennas, that most of the time it's better to use traffic in 4G. I know its ridiculous, but antenna saturation is a thing and it sucks big time.
My company installed Mobile Routers on all our vehicles, and our offices, and all our old phones are running on WiFi! Even my trusty Note 3 still works fine. Being a male, I hand a lot of stuff on my belt, and that stuff now has a small Mobile Router!
I'm still using the Samsung galaxy s10e and had to flash my phone with Tmo branded Android 12 to get my phone working again. It gets very frustrating that I can't flash custom software anymore unless I can get the bootloader unlocked or buy an unlocked phone.
im a bit late to comment on this but Samsung themselves typically locks the boot loader on their newer phones. If you truly want a unlocked bootloader phone buy a Google pixel from Google then put a custom rom on it.
My T-Mobile connection on iPhone XS Max is horrible since 5G/Sprint merger. It wasn't great before, but now it doesn't connect to anything while displaying 4 bars. Maybe it's 4 bars for 5G and not the services I can actually use.
It's called antenna saturation and it's a PITA. Think about it: imagine that before T-Mobile/Sprint merger, there were... let's say 100 users connected to a T-Mobile antenna, now, after the merger, there were 200 users connected to the same antenna. The antenna bandwidth would suck big time and would be unusable (which is what's happenning to you).
You are so right about these phone carriers. And they mislead consumers by stating that they get "unlimited" data. You do get "unlimited" data but the speed is throttled down after 22GB to where it's practically useless. It may take two to several minutes for a web page to load or not at all. Playing a TH-cam video will constantly buffer and only play at 144p if at all. T-Mobile seems like the best deal but their coverage is spotty in rural areas. I'm sick and tired of this crap.
The choices my carrier gave me were to pay money or to downgrade to a free flip phone. Jokes on them; my old phone is LTE, just not VoLTE, which means it can still do everything but make calls. In other words, I now have the perfect phone.
I had a Motorola G7 Play with Boost Mobile that I'm positive has 4G/LTE/VoLTE. They gave me the "discontinuing 3G" warnings for MONTHS but I ignored them because I knew my phone should stay compatible. I read horror stories online about how people got "free new SIM cards" that magically wasn't compatible with their phone, and then they were forced to buy a new phone! I wasn't going to fall for that nonsense so I just kept using what I had. One day the company started forwarding my outgoing calls to customer service. Just like you said, I dumped Boost immediately and they have lost a long time customer. I got a new phone (which I probably didn't have to) and switched to Cricket. I am now concerned they also use the AT&T network. I did know about MVNOs but didn't realize which service belonged to which network. If Cricket gives me any problems I won't hesitate to leave them as well. Thanks for this video!
According to a help article from the manufacturer Boost is not supported although weirdly TMobile at&t and circuit are with volte? My question is how can it support volte with one carrier but not an mvno of that same carrier 🤷♂️. My suspicion is maybe it is because boost is under dish and they I thought were supposed to be building out their own infrastructure to be the 4th carrier in the us but for now are just utilizing T-Mobile network. That all had to do with the T-Mobile Sprint merger a while back.
Actually it seems boost is on unstable ground at the moment. From what I can gather there were an mvno for sprint until sprint was bought by T-Mobile. Some time during that it was acquired by dish. So they were using the old sprint network now apart of T-Mobile network but are now in the process of switching to AT&T as a hold over until dish builds its own network. Really kind of confusing.
Well Cricket was actually the company that turned off my service last year saying it wasn't compatible anymore. Of course that happened after I took the Sim Card out of it for a few minutes to try a different phone. Put it back in a few minutes later and suddenly had no service. They told me I needed a new phone, but since I had just recently bought that one, that wasn't happening. Luckily I had a different Sim Card I could use at the time. I used that for about a week and then activated a Sim from Simple Mobile. I've since heard that some have been able to get Cricket to work with them and some haven't. I could have and probably should have pushed the issue with Cricket, but honestly got tired of arguing with them and simply moved on.
@@lejoshmont2093 boost mobile is an mvno but was owned by sprint. The deal with fcc was tmobile take sprint, and then give dish network boost so dish network could replace sprint as the 4th major carrier. So there are still 4 major careies . Dish is just now one of them taking the place of sprint.
I have a 21 ultra and since Verizon has been switching towers to 5g it has no service 90 percent of the places I used to it including my house. When I do have service it goes in and out of 5g and even when full 5g with full bars its slower than ever. I've spent hours talking to Verizon techs and they all giving me the run around and for my house they say just use wifi calling. I'm canceling 5 phones with Verizon they are crooks.
I agree, Verizon in terms of crooks is the worst. I buy my phones unlocked thru the manufacturer and put mine on a T-mobile prepaid plan. I have been very happy ever since.
Thanks for the education. You confirmed what I already suspected: the carriers are lying! After a year of calls from AT&T trying to sell a new phone to replace my son's iphone 5 (which came out in 2012 but reportedly does not support VoLTE and thus incompatible starting last February), my son still using the phone which still works almost a year later! Perhaps they are going to turn something off eventually as you stated to free up bands for other use, but for now it really seems like this was all a gimmick to sell phones.
I called AT&T regarding no service in a certain area I drive a LOT. Gave them mile markers (rural) and all of my info.they have a new 5G tower out there and I've had crappy service there ever since(about a 15 mile stretch on the Interstate). I have the Galaxy Note 10+. They told me there is nothing they can do unless I can get 5 AT&T phones to corroborate.. I told her I'd rather quit their service. She didn't want that but there is "nothing we can do" without the 5 different phone numbers. There are 5 phones on our service, but that apparently doesn't count. Can't go to Verizon because I'm getting the Brax phone. Struggling here. I need my phone (I'm a Realtor). We are just getting T Mobile here do not sure on service. Still looking into it all.
19:00 I was at boost/T-mobile reseller a few days ago and they were offering free 5G phones with three months of minimum paid service and I grabbed one to use to activate sim cards if needed.
My crazy thought, setup some kind of mesh network and attach it to a series of drones, have a base station for them to charge at, maybe even have a way for them to connect to nearby drones and sap some power, perhaps even extend that with a solar panel on top and just keep them buzzing around to make a network. I'm thinking of either pogo pins or some sort of lightly magnetized connector port for quick connections and easy dismounts.
Do not stay committed to any carrier, unless you are in an area where only one dominates coverage. If the company jerks you around, vote with your dollars, move to another. And only No-Contract, try the different MVNOs that use your carrier towers, find the right (cheap) plans that suit your need for GBs
You are exactly right. Verizon 5G isn't ready. Below is my experience. I got a new phone on Verizon near the end of '22. The 5G worked poorly and only half the time, and was slow and no good in buildings. I took it back to best buy and the salesman had the same issue with his at&t phone. He fixed my phone by doing what he did to fix his. He reset the preference to 4G, and now it works fine. I called Verizon, and their solution was to restart the phone, That didn't help.I asked them if they were having trouble with 5G and the customer service admitted they were.
AFAIK this is mainly applicable to the US where LTE-A has falsely been advertised as "5G". Over here in Europe we do have 5G networks up and running which are mostly "non-standalone 5G" ones. They still use a LTE core network but 5G "New Radio", say at around 3.6 GHz, which is the 5G pilot band. "Real 5G" will be using mmWave (6-100 GHz) frequencies as well as a 5G core network ("standalone 5G"). It's still debatable if you need the 1 ms latency that's supposed to go along with it, though. 3G networks have been / will be switched off here in Europe in order to free frequency bands for 5G-this is referred to as "refarming".
Yea I always thought the point of lte would be that they would make improvements to it but it would just be called lte. What makes it worse is my experience the carrier sabotaged 4g lte by throttling it to maybe 5mbps you would have to pay for "5G" to get the typical LTE speed of ~60mbps which is kind of scammy.
I have a dual SIM note 9 from overseas using AT&t prepaid and another non-american Sim, ATT is telling me that note 9 is a compatible phone, but because the model number of my specific note 9 ends with a different letter it's not on the allow/whitelist alongside the American model numbered note 9s.. what is extra interesting is that my AT&t data service works in USA, but not phone service, HOWEVER the AT&t phone service works while roaming in other countries!!!(likely because the roaming carriers are not enforcing the ATT whitelist). IT IS ABSOLUTELY FRUSTRATING, BORDERING ON CRIMINAL BY AT&T, especially because having had it brought to their attention they are not fixing the problem, instead trying to force the purchase of a new phone!
T-Mobile has been weak on signal where I live for two years. Living rural has serious disadvantages. Verizon seems to be the best in my area but I refuse to switch.
I had hard time with my carrier....they never sent me the new SIM card to activate my Samsung on their "enhanced" network since last Nov. Well late Feb I decided to walk into one of their stores and problem solved in 3 minutes! Only thing the rep said my phone is 5G now and I knew that was BS - "fake 5G" as you say on my 2018 vintage 4G LTE phone. I did a speed check on my phone with LTE only (no wifi - off) and I get 150/100 mbps d/u speeds - not 5G but not too shabby.
thank you for the great information! my carrier is pure talk (at&t) and they tell me that Samsung no longer supports the s9, therefore my note 9 can no longer make or receive calls. I installed wifi calling app and one day I forgot to turn on the wifi, but I received a call over lte. I'm curious to see what will happen in the days to follow.
AT&T customer here. I have a Motorola One Hyper. I purchased about 3 months before AT&T disabled 'new activations for 3G-only devices'. Moto One Hyper uses VoLTE, and it was listed on Motorola's site as compatible with AT&T and VoLTE. About 2 months after AT&T made the change, they shut off my phone because it's "incompatible". Customer support could not override it, and they referenced a PDF of whitelisted devices that could be activated. I purchased a phone on the list from Motorola, begrudgingly. (Moto One Fusion+) Now, 2 years later, guess what's on the whitelist? The One Hyper! So I'm back to that.
I switched to Tello, which uses T-Mobile. Their website is very well designed and answered all my questions. They state the required bands your phone must have compatibility with. I now only bring my own unlocked phone. It uses 4G voLTE. My Nokia 225 was terrible with it so I bought my own Jelly 2. Which works very well with the 4G. They verify that a phone will be compatible ONLY after you submit to them it's full imei number. I've never had to talk with customer service, which is nice.
Samsung Galaxy Note 8 (4G LTE): ATT's Note 8 continues to work, privately purchased Note 8's were kicked from all networks. (Private, bring-your-own-phones were kicked but those who bought from the carrier still work.) The differentiating issue, according to the tech, is a suffix to the phone model number, a "-1" (dash-one) at the end. So this makes one question what the benefits are to buying outright, especially when you can do this for less through the carrier, simply for agreeing to stay with them for 2 more years. I saved a couple hundred on my Samsung S22 Ultra doing this, and can still port it to another carrier as a non-att phone, according to ATT, after 2 years. We'll see.
I just got a new phone last month. But last year with my old phone, I often had poor call quality or dropped calls when I had full bars LTE, and with how old it was, it’s likely due to the voice being Analog 3G. It drove me insane, so glad to know why
I have one purchased over the counter, 4GLTE, that Trac Phone upon being purchased by VZW told me was incompatible and I must buy new since none of the free replacement phones were available in my area. However, tech had no problem sending two SMS messages to that new incompatible device while trying to convince me that device would not make a phone call or send SMS messages. AS IF.
Another little mistake: the SIM switch doesn't work at some MVNOs which - against any standard - check the IMEI whether it's in their database. They make you call them to transfer the SIM. Boost is one of them.
True 5g doesn't have the penetration values that lower frequencies do... it's kind of a red herring. I won't say zero, but in reality, much lower than older freqs. The REAL worry is the data theft and metadata tracking that 5g does... the way it is set up by nearly all carriers, they have tracking on you even if you are trying to not be tracked. It's all for "your safety" - look up E911 that US is pushing through.
When Verizon first started sending me warnings that my "3g" phone (really a fairly modern 4g phone) would stop working when they shut off the 3g network I wasn't that concerned since I figured my phone just wasn't in their database. At one point I spoke with a fairly knowledgeable tech support person and they mentioned the requirement for VOLTE support which I also have but seemed confident that it wouldn't be a problem. Then the wording of the notifications changed and they started saying that they would suspend phones that weren't supported. Suspending a line because they think a phone doesn't support the service is a very different thing then simply shutting off the 3g towers but no one at VZ seemed to recognize a distinction. I tried calling support to clarify things but I'm pretty sure the girl just thought I was some old man who didn't know I was using some ancient 3g phone. She kept trying to send me a really low end replacement phone that was inferior to my current one in every way. My phone was supposed to stop working last month but so far it's still ..
Rob, Thank you for this in-depth video. I have some comments however… First of all, I totally agree with you about AT&T. Not only from a mobile carrier perspective, but as a service provider, they have real support problems. They have been so bad in my daily IT work environment that I came up with an acronym - ARWATTS, to quickly refer to them, because it means: Another Reason Why ATT Sucks That said, I think you have some inaccuracies or missing information in what you said. Although a mobile phone may support the Bands or Channels that a carrier uses, if they use them for a different service, then it really does make the phone incompatible with their network. Also, carriers allow phones to use their network provided that they can do some level of support for the customer using that device. If the carrier doesn’t have sufficient information about the phone, or has not trained their support staff about the specifics of that phone, it is better for them to say they do not support it on their network rather than to allow it on the network and then fail to provide adequate support when it has issues. Regarding the SIM swapping you mentioned, the customer needs to make sure that the phone is not carrier locked; otherwise it will not work with another carrier’s SIM. AT&T seems to be the worst with selling SIM locked phones that require the customer to call and request an unlock. And they will only unlock it if the phone has been paid off. The VoLTE support issue is strange, but it is likely the result of early VoLTE supporting phones using pre-standard or incompatible versions of VoLTE, and they cannot be updated to supported versions. Carriers also have issues supporting older phones, particularly phones running the Android OS, because Android OS is such a fragmented OS, and the support model for new versions requires the carrier to test and certify each new release with all the phones that could potentially be on their network, because the OS updates are generally pushed from the carrier. It is a bad model, but it results in lots of phone churn. IOS updates are always done by the end user, directly with Apple, and do not require any carrier intervention or support.
Last year I temporarily broke my iPhone 7+ and stuck the SIM card in my old iPhone 5S which also has LTE, it worked for about 2 minutes and att remotely locked my SIM card, forcing me to drive to the nearest store 25 miles away to get a new card They told me the old iPhone wasn’t compatible and before they gave me the new card, they unblocked my account or old card, whatever it was, the old iPhone started getting voice and data again while i was in the store, the employees looked stunned and didn’t elaborate to me what the deal really was… There tried selling me a new iPhone and I declined it. I got my old phone fixed later on instead. They just block accounts/SIM cards when the SIM card moves to another device and lie. Hopefully gaining a sale. Lol Now I’ve got a new iPhone with an “E Sim” which i do not like since I can’t swap phones anymore.
What an informative video. Thank you for educating me on the different bands. My former service provider was MINT (T-Mobile) that I had for four years. There were times I couldn't get any service in town, experienced lots of dropped calls, and sometimes couldn't get calls to go through . Frustrating! (And not so cheap of service in the end.) Switched service in April '22: My 6 month old Samsung is 5G, a top model, Verizon's the carrier, I live in a major city near a major university, service is reliable albeit more expensive, but the 5G service is spotty at best. When I have 5G, there's a major difference in data transfer, almost as good as the WiFi at my home, which is excellent. An interesting note: China touts there's 5G everywhere, but the 5G service is turned off at night because it consumes a lot of power. It makes me wonder about domestic service.
That last advice on how to bypass the sim switch, i changed my sim to another phone i had used with att for years and they network locked me where i couldnnt send data or call anyone but att. I raised hell but they told me not to switch sims anymore even tho ive been on a plan for years..
I'm on at&t. Using an S8 Active. I actually got a text from AT&T telling me to turn VOLTE on. I didn't. A couple of weeks ago I couldn't make or receive calls but had data. Turned Volte on and had voice again. Now I know a little more about my phone!!!
@20:39 lololol -We all suffer buddy. My employer is contracted/partnered with one of these carriers and the uneducated staff issues have predated the change to 5G. To that point, we are ALL the ones to suffer these consequences. I want to shout out and thank you for your informative vods and personal research you share with the general public re. privacy, freedom, tips and tricks and most notably-taking back power we all deserve when it comes to our education on data, privacy, information and choices that are obfuscated by data harvesting companies.
I never used at&t but I got water damage on my phone. The phone started to show signs of this within the next few days. I purchased a new mainboard to replace the problem instead of getting a new phone. The board is unlocked so when I got ahold of a rep, I just told them my old phone got damaged and got a new one, so I didn't have to explain every detail. T-Mobile told me the phone was not unlocked, but put the sim card in and 1hr later was working on the network.. so that was a false. Just over that fact, they lied to me and the service is bad at best in my area. I switched carriers when my service ended. This was not even about compatible, and T-Mobile dropped the ball even on that..
Rob, thank, you for the info. I'm probably in your age range. I've had a phone 2016 with boost which usually says is Sprint, but your info says AT & T. My Samsung Galaxy J7 phone says it is 4G LTE but for the past 9 mos Boost has been hounding me that my 3G network phone is not going to be supported. At that time, no date, but last 3 mos date for, as you said in this video 3-31-22. I had a while ago, bought a new phone but didn't activate it, a Samsung Galaxy A20. I waited. It's a 4G LTE but newer. I tried to call Boost but difficult to get thru, long wait time to tell them to bug off! So I just went ahead & activated the new phone. I was really fine with the old one. It was doing fine. Boost offered a free phone 5G but when I looked up the reviews, I found bad reviews. So since I had the new one already I'm sticking with it. I usually like boost because the monthly no contract price is low. I had Cingular way back when which was bought by AT&T and I agree AT&T suck!! So thank you for all your info.
I know I probably shouldn't have, but we got the S22 Ultra...I wanted the S-pen & its features & the cameras. My GOD I have been nothing but angry for so many things! Dual messaging apps that you can't even remove, only disable & even though 1 is supposedly Google & the other Samsung, the Samsung one's info in 'about' goes to GOOGLE CUZ WHY NOT?! App permissions are a nightmare, some basic-feeling features (like seeing whether a msg was delivered or not) are made annoying as ZUCK, like, I don't need a notification EVERY TIME I SEND A MSG FOR ZUCK'S SAKE. Some stupid glitch happened with the permissions screen to where it shows a BLANK ZUCKING PAGE (workaround that zucks with high contrast theme lets you at least see the text outline) my mother's phone is somehow different from mine in the apps shown, permissions for some apps, various settings & other random schitts that makes no zucking sense since everything is on the same exact version on both devices. EVERYTHING. I went on a yelling, raging rant today (sorry mom) & this is the first time I legitimately regret getting new phones...I know Lineage OS isn't really supported for it yet either (I don't think) so can't really fix any of this. but no way am I returning the devices now with any usage devices. I'll wait a bit & then degoog 100%.
I had a customer service rep also tell me recently that my phone wouldn't work on their network without band 12 like you stated here. Now it's always been my understanding that band 12 was mostly used for low signal areas and in very dense buildings. I check my signal band somewhat often, especially when the signal is low. My phones have rarely switched to band 12 unless the signal there was indeed bad or was becoming weak for whatever reason. Depending on the phone and area, my phones were almost always on band 4, 17, or band 66. At home where my signal is weak and bands limited, it's usually on band 2 T-Mobile or 17 AT&T. At work depending on where I am, I move around sometimes, it's usually band 2, 4, or now band 41. Seems a new tower added band 41 and my phone has been picking it up and holding it recently. Regular b41 and not 5G N41 unfortunately. Still band 41 speeds have been pretty impressive. I feel the needing band 12 customer rep comments are an outright lie though.
A year ago, I had to abandon my perfectly good Xiaomi Redmi 9 that was less than a year old, because -- according to AT&T -- even though it supported 4g LTE, it used 3g to establish a connection with the network. To compensate me for my loss, AT&T practically gave me a Galaxy S22, which in many respects (especially battery capacity) is anemic in comparison to my Redmi 9, in spite of being one of Samsung's flagship models. To make matters worse, with AT&T's "assistance," I lost access to my large Kindle library due to log-in issues. And being constantly glued to a charger with no significant increase in performance is a constant pain.
❤❤❤ Thank you for helping so many people with your knowledge. You never act or communicate with arrogance. We all appreciate your kind and friendly demeanor. arrogance: [noun] an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions. 👍
I have been using T-Mobile from back when they were Voicestream (previously *Powertel* in my area). I have an iPhone 5 and it still works, aside from a couple of battery changes. However, I buy prepaid SIMs for other uses (i.e. work phone), but these newer SIMs, purchased from T-Mobile will not work in the iPhone 5. It works fine in an iPhone SE and other (newer) iPhones but not the iPhone 5. My regular (old) SIM works fine in the 5; in fact, it will still work in an older flip phone which uses GSM/GPRS. So I think they are just not provisioning the newer SIMs for voice channel connections anymore.
Oh, boy.. I'm one of those who has an ancient Moto Nexus 6. Yes, it still works. But I got that notice thing and have to figure all this crap out. Another project I don't want ! I'm ready to " cut the ( cellular cord ) Going to smoke signals and paper airplanes.
5g is why I am sticking with my note 9 and G8Xs. What they really want to do is put antennas and repeaters everywhere so not only can they know your whereabouts by meta and cell towers but to also draw heat maps.
My phone was much more stable with 4g.
5G is not widely out(yet). People are going to not need 5G with better wireless options and range now from satellite and smaller isp technology.
@@dertythegrower That depends on what it's being used for. Like if latency isn't a concern, then sure you could go with those other options that you mentioned, but 5G is probably always going to be the next best thing to fixed connections.
@@dertythegrower Yeah, other options include free decentralized wifi hotspots and ISP's created using IoT which are not only effectively free but which also pay money to owners of devices for allowing their devices to forward/relay communications between sender and intended reciever. So, why are people still paying for centralized internet connections with decentralized options available?
@@dertythegrower Satellite? Who can afford that? You mean starlink?
@@dertythegrower there are no satellites
I don't call tech support. I just put the sim card in and it works. I don't fall for their hard sells on the phone. I am very knowledgeable about tech, it is hard for someone with less tech knowledge to sell me on their ideas. Rob, I feel you are like me. You don't take the bull and let them know they are stupid.
not really. got a new phone (oneplus 9) in december, it was working, like you said. 2 weeks ago ATT started to play a voice msg before each call, saying my phone not 5g compatible, i will have to upgrade my phone... Last week, I couldnt receive any calls, went to voice mail.
I had to call them... wasted hours, then I had to go to the corporate store (not just any ATT) and it took 5 hours to fix this simple thing.
Yeah I go through the same issues as Rob as well
These types are so stupid they will never know that even if you tried to explain. It's all about honesty. Smart people are honest, where stupid people get by with lying. For example the Huawei firm does not need to lie. It's in the lead.
@@nedudki your phone was using 3G for voice calls so it got flagged in their system. Some phones don't have the option to turn on VoLTE/HD voice/Enhanced Voice etc. Samsung phones are like this where the toggle isn't available to you and you have to wait for the software update that turns on VoLTE. Your phone may support VoLTE but if it doesn't get updates anymore, you may never get the update that turns on the feature that the phone has the capabilities to work with the change.
I've had more choppy service with 5G than any of my older 4G phones from 2015
How are you leaving comments before the video is published? Learning something new here
@@robbraxmantech TH-cam has been that way for a while, you can comment on videos before a livestream. Sorry, I am going to watch it.
TH-cam tells you a livestream is going to happen. It even lets you press a button for a reminder. But it also lets you on the page where the livestream will happen and the comment section is open for comment just like it would be after a livestream has aired. I think it's different from a live comment section.
That is what our problem turned out to be. We have been using Red Pocket mobile with ATT as the carrier. When 3G went away, my wife's phone stopped working. I went to the settings to see if I could turn on VoLTE, and it was greyed out, unable to turn on. So, we switched back to a T-Mobile MVNO, and it now works again. Apparently ATT has been doing this to a lot of folks. My wife's phone was made in 2019. Not old by any means.
That seems to be the magic year. Maybe they just globally blocked all phones made in 2019
@@robbraxmantech that's a good video but we all know that Huawei 5g is the only legit 5g in the world
My family members still use their flipped phones and it’s working well so far with no interruption. Who needs a smartphone when they are in their 90’s!! Totally scam!!!
high tech cattle tags are part of agenda 2030 - Im still waiting for LORA pager, we have LORA network but dont know what else I can do technically.
I don't use smartphones as phones either.
But why wouldn't you want a phone that can, if you want it, run endless apps? Do people carry a Bible in their pockets? "They is an app for that", as they say. Does a mere flip-phone contain a calculator? You are already carrying a charged battery, and perhaps a camera. Why not also the apps and capabilities to make it useful? Can a flip-phone even share photos with a friend or somebody who made need the photo or evidence? Can you email or text a photo to somebody else on a flip-phone? Many things that require a computer, will get by with a browser on a smart-phone. The smart-phone aspect seems like a "Duh! freebee" to me. Does your car really "need" a radio? Yet it probably has a radio/music system.
But you do not need all the usual stupid apps, like manipulated FB, Big-Tech-censored Twitter, etc., presumably some stupid apps may compromise your privacy. Can't all that social media be accessed through the phone browser which likely has far better security?
Phones are so last-century. Today's smart-phones are computers that oh BTW, makes phones calls. Just one of its many apps.
But I do feel that way concerning 5G. Whatever would 5G do for me? Nothing at all?
@@yosefmacgruber1920 "But why wouldn't you want a phone that can, if you want it, run endless apps?"
Because I have a computer at home that has no microphone or camera connected, so it can't spy on me.
"Do people carry a Bible in their pockets? "They is an app for that", as they say."
No. I carry it in my bag. An app on a phone requires electricity, but my paper Bible is always available.
"Does a mere flip-phone contain a calculator?"
Yes, actually it does, but I never use mine, because I have a brain.
"You are already carrying a charged battery, and perhaps a camera. Why not also the apps and capabilities to make it useful?"
Because it's already useful.
"Can a flip-phone even share photos with a friend or somebody who made need the photo or evidence? Can you email or text a photo to somebody else on a flip-phone? Many things that require a computer, will get by with a browser on a smart-phone."
If it's important, then it can usually wait until you get back home, and if not, then just take the SD card out of your camera, and plug it into a nearby computer.
You don't need a web browser on your phone. Anything that requires a web browser can wait until you get back home or to your office. Carry a notebook, if your are forgetful.
"The smart-phone aspect seems like a "Duh! freebee" to me."
Then you probably don't know how much your "smart" phone is spying on you, or how easy it is to hack it, or how it makes you dumber by offloading too many mental tasks from your actual brain. Remember, your brain has great plasticity, so it constantly adapts to whatever demands you place on it, so if you reduce the demands too much, by offloading all mental operations to a "smart" (really a dumb) phone, then your brain adapts by either becoming dumber or developing neurological disorders.
"Does your car really "need" a radio? Yet it probably has a radio/music system."
Yes, also your car radio doesn't spy on you, it doesn't make you retarded or mentally ill, and it doesn't have access to your bank account!
"But you do not need all the usual stupid apps, like manipulated FB, Big-Tech-censored Twitter, etc., presumably some stupid apps may compromise your privacy."
ALL SMARTPHONE APPS compromise your privacy!
"Can't all that social media be accessed through the phone browser which likely has far better security?"
Can't it wait until you get back home or to the office? If people really need to get a hold of you, they can still just call or text you, right?
"Phones are so last-century."
Says the idiot who literally carries one in his pocket every day... Yeah, right!
"Today's smart-phones are computers that oh BTW, makes phones calls. Just one of its many apps."
That's exactly the problem. All computers can be hacked and used as spying devices, so why the Zuck would you carry one on your person all the time, which has a camera, and a microphone, and a GPS that can all never be disconnected? Why would you use this same computer for online banking and sensitive communication? Are you insane?
Why would you not leave this device at home, and carry a simple cell phone, that literally doesn't have enough processing power to run spyware, and only contains a list of contacts and your latest text messages, making it a lower value target for hackers?
"But I do feel that way concerning 5G. Whatever would 5G do for me? Nothing at all?"
What would a "smart" (dumb) phone do for you, besides exposing you to all kinds of unnecessary dangers?
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And how do you know that your flip-phone isn't spying on you? Is a non-social media Bible app any more likely to be spying on you? I thought that the evil Left was sort of religion-phobic? So of course, they would want you to read the Bible? I never said that all apps are safe. In fact, the more crap sotware that you put onto a computer, the moe unstable and sluggish or bloated that it seems to become? So what then would be the point of installing unwanted or unused apps? Not worth the risk, if they offer no benefit. Sort of like the ControlYaVirus coerced vs?
And what for do I want to lug a giant $100s camera and its back-back around for? Am I a professional photographer?
Yes, I do carry a notebook. Paper and pen. Old-fashioned much?
If you are so paranoid that that calculator app might be spying on you, then have you opened up your desktop computer and your smart-phone, to insure that there is no secret microphone in there? Of course the evil deep state may have bugged your light fixtures or your A/C vents. Have you checked them lately? Funny thing is, most all our phone lines have been bugged for decades, and all your emails are likely archived by the deep state. What do you think those humongous data centers are for? That means that your old-tech corded phone is not secure if everybody's phone lines are being recorded. But if you had an encryption app to talk to certain friends, that might actually be safe. But flip-phones won't run stuff like that.
Somebody rear-ends you. Sure, get out that fancy huge non-internet-connected DSLR-whatever camera that you left at home, and not a smart-phone to take photos of damage and the license tag? You take your phone everywhere so that Big Bad government can track you, but you do not take a humongous camera bag everywhere. Some people do not have such professional cameras. Some people do not have computers and their internet device then is their phone. Why does the deep state need to put a microphone onto you, when you post all your personal details on FB? Oh sure, maybe you are too smart for that, but what of all your so-called friends who know all about you?
If you value the Holy Bible, yeah that is always a good idea. Make sure that you also have paper Bibles that are not dependent upon having a functional economy so that you can pay your electric bill. In addition to your many Bible apps. Have a Plan B. EMP may be supposedly unlikely, do you thin that the evil deep state wants people actually thinking for themselves once their liar TVs no longer work and can tell them what to think?, but if the "unthinkable" happens, you will very likely want to spend more time in God's Word. And paper books might better survive some "book-banning" than apps that might get yanked out of your devices. Just how many back-doors or font-doors are there? Just one connection to the cell-towers and poof it is gone? But then if you are homeless and own nothing, then nobody can steal from you? Bette then to be homeless? Imagine the zombie apocalypse once the cell-phones no longer work. Imagine the withdrawal pains. Imagine all the morons who don't know how think, suddenly having to think.
In the _Star Trek_ future, maybe there is some plausible story why no computers are needed, yet they have computers in just about every device and room. Why is that? Maybe they are all open-source with no back doors? Maybe we do not "need" lights in every room? Why not be Amish? I agree with how the Amish largely ignored ControlYaVirus "plan-demic" and decided that faith in God and getting natural immunity was the way to go. Like we all do not have reasons to distrust Big Pharma and Big Brother corrupt evil government? Why can't you just use a free-energy flashlight every night?
And I once calculated change all the time in my head, back when I delivered pizzas. Big whoop. So what? Pulling out a calculator would be much too slow. Do you know how many cashiers could not calculator change if their cash registers glitched or their customer changes the amount of cash? I still have numerous fancy calculators. How can I be the "mad-scientist" that I want to be, without mad-science tools? I also have several calculator apps. Your flip-phone calculator probably doesn't even do proper algebraic order of operations. And I hardly consider -E- to be the correct answer to the square root of a negative number. I thought the mathematicians settled that, now many centuries ago? Solution is obvious. More apps. What else is all that memory storage for? Oh, yeah, to fill up with movies and videos, or your photos. But it looks like Rob Braxman uses a smart-phone. Gasp! De-Googled but of course, because Professor Google these days seems to be far too cozy with leftism and Big Brother government and censorship because evil leftists are crap when it comes to debate.. And I am now a newbie Linux user. Do I get any points with you for that? The audacity of thinking that Apple or MyCrud$oft should not own my OS.
How easy it is to hack it? So then you are one of the few holdouts on rejecting "smart" electricity meters? Pleas do tell us about what they have hidden in there, as that has the real makings of a conspiracy. Can they really tell what TV channel you are watching just by measuring the electrical fluctuations in current/signal? I am quite sure that the world will not end horribly by 2020 just because every person does not have a "smart" meter within 50 feet of where they sleep. Might it have anything to do with the "plan-demic"? Does 5G have anything to do with it also? Yes, I do buy into at least some of the so-called "conspiracy theories". Really I do.
Why not everything that requires a -smart-phone- _phone_ can wait until you get home or to the office? That is what most everybody thought back when car-phones were an expensive toy that only rich people could afford. BTW, have you seen a payphone lately? And using the library computers, that is what poor or homeless people do. And once you log into an account, they know where you are anyway.
So whatever happened to books of tables of logarithms? One person couldn't calculate that in a reasonable amount of time, now obsoleted even by cheap calculators. Brain can adapt? By only so much.
How do you know that your car radio does not spy on you? They are usually computers now, might even have some connection to the cell-network. Do you drive some ancient car with nothing like On-star? You still have the slot where the audio cassettes go in? And the radio does cause mental illness if you listen to rap-is-crap. I am concerned about the devil-noise coming out of obnoxiously-loud cars. It almost never is bluegrass, classical, or the local Christian radio station. Why is that? Whatever the crap are people listening to these days? No wonder they seem oblivious to that the Left and the TV are liars? They already have serious brain damage, as evidenced by their ugly tattoos and drug problems, and now the jab has further turned them into dying zombies.
No access to your bank account? Well with the "internet of all things", which you apparently buy into at least just a little, as I notice that you are not Amish technologically-impaired, they will link your political views or your support for the truck convoy protestors or a comment that you posted somewhere, to your bank account, but then maybe they will crash the dollar anyway. Ready for the re-education camps? Just a few more false flags away?
And flip-phones compromise your privacy. Did you pay cash for your "burner phone" and buy from a store with no security cameras? Didn't you watch _Enemy Of the State_ ? He made a call from an "anonymous" payphone, and Big Tech deep state computer data center matched his voice. Maybe we should pass around pieces of paper for communication, then eat or burn the evidence? A de-Googled phone probably makes more sense than being _smart-phone_ phobic. Didn't I hear Rob say something about what sort of apps that you should not be putting on your phone? Why does he promote smart-phones if to have no apps? Although maybe somebody should assemble a list of supposedly more-secure apps? Are you really going to convince your friends to give up all their apps? And to never take your photo? I have long been suspicious of apps such as FB. Whatever can it do beneficial that wouldn't work in the mobile view of a browser? Seems redundant to also need the connection to the mother ship. I have long thought that apps should be mostly independent of the mother ship, still work even when you have no cell-signal. Even some GPS navigation apps need no data or cell-signal having the map previously downloaded. Apps tend to get way too many questionable permissions on the off chance that you might rarely use some supposed feature. Or they need access to internet so that they can push annoying ads onto you. Not everything is actually "free". But some games are kind enough to turn off ads simply by turning off wifi and data, so that the game plays without interruptions. Which is about how I would program my "free" app, as I don't want potential customers to uninstall.
Why not leave the computer/smart-phone at home, and just carry around a simple phone that hardly does anything but listen in on you and track you, you ask? Why not carry around a paper notebook and leave the pen to write with at home? Why do something in a sensible way when you can do it halfway?
Sadly I had to learn all this before this video came out. AT&T stopped supporting any phone not sold by them. My unlocked factory BlackBerry Key2 was one such phone. They first told me their network wouldn't support it. Then after painting them into a corner with the phone's specs, they finally admitted it was just because Blackberry doesn't make or support their own phones, and therefore doesn't "pay to play." One of the customer service reps told me that AT&T is given incentives by the manufacturers to carry their phones. They then receive phones from the manufacturer that they can load their own software on and put their logo on. These are the phones sold by the carriers. A factory unlocked phone is as the manufacturer intended, and sometimes has features and capabilities outside of what the carrier wants you to have. This is another reason why AT&T and others are outright rejecting certain specific phones. I have since switched to T-Mo and am still using my Key2 with zero issues and better cell service!
That's weird. My rule is never buy a phone from a carrier, always buy it unlocked from that manufacturer. Obviously sub $100 burns are an exception.
Still running the same Blackberry Key2 for now. Had it since 2018 with zero issues. Stopped updating some apps because of how invasive google was becoming. On T-Mobile now with better reception and 4G LTE. Calls are in HD most of the time. I'll see how long it lasts.
so stop using at&t. it's that simple
That's great. At&t was trying to make their problem your problem & they lost you to a competitor.
@@dune2024 It’s a shame because AT&T is the best carrier in my area. Verizon works, but it’s not quite as good. T-Mobile is utter trash in my area (even in the city).
They have been screwing us over since the telephone and postal service was privatised. The year of that happening depends on the country you're in. I remember the Telekom CEO saying in 1992 the internet and mobile phone will not gain momentum, no need to invest. Keep on doing copper wire.
When did he usps become privatized?
@@Thumper68 the usps isn't private. I was talking more general. The Telekom Rob mentions is a German company that was "created" when the government partly privatised the German Post. The company got all the hardware in the cities, the streets, all the wires etc basically for free and can ever since make profit for a few rich, while the people don't even get fast internet.
In Germany there is only one other big internet and telephone provider, Vodafone. It's a dipole ripping off people.
In the USA the telecommunication companies were also private or privatised long ago.
The same is true for UK, France, ... You name it.
It's the same old game of governments selling the people's silver wear.
@@prunabluepepper got ya. I thought maybe you were losing your mind but clearly not lol
@@Thumper68 😄
@@Thumper68 ....😂
The internet of things and they are also working on the internet of bodies, sad to say. Truthers like Rob are so very important. I feel a learned helplessness about tech, given personal issues with feeling trapped by hacking and cyberstalking going on for many years. I am blocked from even calling my brother.
landline! get a landline.
@@sophiesmith5922 not so easy, sadly. TY though, for the recommendation and for caring to comment.🙏
The US mail is still in operation. Thank goodness!
@@PadraigTomas interesting comment given the shenanigans I exoerience when receiving phones via mail.
@@PadraigTomas they are spying on you too.
I'm old enough to have witnessed the main development in mobile. The mass was so enthralled by Nokia Symbian back around 2004 and IOS and Android pushed us to be for-ever connected and other platforms were pushed to oblivion. Here in my country I have only so little chance to use platform other than those spying ones since most of our daily aspects have been digitalized so we *need* to embrace it whether we agree or not.
Today, 2G is still active in my country, but use 2G in development country, where all the service are being digitalize so much so that the government are embracing it, is becoming challenging.
Thank you Rob, you have been enlightening us so far.
I am still on 2G with the most basic phone you can imagine.
I'm switching back and forth between old 2G and 3G phones lol
I'm having fun using old depreciated phones that I could never afford back in the day. Right now I'm using the HTC S740, what a beautiful cell phone!
In Germany they switched off 3G and shifted frequencies to LTE and 5G.
BUT: there is no 5G standalone live, just testing from Vodafone.
As long as they have 4G and 5G via dynamic spectrum sharing, there is no need for a 5G contract.
Fortunately, they did not block older phones.
In the German networks (Telefonica, T-Mobile, Vodafone) Volte and Wi-Fi-call works even with my G6 plus.
It's obviously a matter of time before 4G is phased out.
Problem: I live in a rural area and the only carrier that works out here is AT&T, a company I have grown to despise. NO SERVICE, only robots answer phones - and yes they have issued edit that if anyone who has a 3g phone will wake up to discover they have no service.
Unfortunately, that is where we do not get a choice. Maybe some satellite will cover us someday. Ask Elon
In that case, you'll need a landline, or just make sure to get a fake "5G" phone, that doesn't support millimeter wave, if that's possible.
Taking ATT to court right now with attorney General, And WINNING. Tmobile next. they are all Pieces of she-it in my book.
Thank you, Rob, for this timely and important information. I actually am still using an LG G Stylo that I bought new in 2016. I'm a Metro PCS customer which is T Moble. So far, so good for me.
Tmobile buys you time. At least a year.
@@robbraxmantech what you mean
@@nickandro127 meaning eventually T-Mobile will be strict with what phones they allow on their network as well I'm sure 😔
Metro Pretty Crappy Service by Terrible Mobile.
I've been noticing sometimes my phone doesn't even ring with verizon. I thought it might be my older phone, but people with brand new phones are having the same issues. I've realized that the subscriber is no longer is the biggest payer isn't the consumer, it the data purchasing entities. Us users are no longer the priority.
Thanks Rob and God bless all of you and your families.
You're the man Rob! Thanks for all you do for us pleebs out here who are at the mercy of the tech spy monopolies.
That's definitely one of the problems, only having 3 carriers.
This explains in part why my phone just notified me yesterday recently that if I have connectivity issues, I need to active VoLTE.
Rob prevents us from getting robbed
Rob, you hit the jackpot on this 1. I've been angry about this for a long time and been telling everyone but nobody will do anything about it. I think we need to say to hell with 5g and reuse the 3g networks that there's nothing wrong with.
my question is, since 3g is a different bandwidth (ENTIRELY) than 4g-5g etc WHAT the hell, or WHO the hell, is opening this bandwith for ? just like amazon trying to buy civilian airspace... it goes on and on . fcc is to blame as well (federal communications) they are the main culprit POS ,don't even get me started on drones. but same category.
The 3G bands are slated to be handed over to other users in the next few years - "emergency services" mostly - they've already been on there for a couple of years around these parts - so the need to designate it specifically and only to them is kind of questionable... but don't dare argue with FCC over it...
There are a lot of technical reasons why LTE is better than 3G, which is an inefficient use of band space. The problem is not the technology, but rather the policies of the carriers who don't want to support a large number of older phones. The first VoLTE phones were sold in mid-2014, and most phones sold since 2017 support VoLTE.
5G is being pushed likely for the spyware abilities it can provide for data collectors
Rob, with al due respect, in the US there was a major FTC action being brought against carriers advertising 4G, because in the rest of the world this is 4GLTE. In the US, AT&T notibly advertised 3G with a high speed backbone. The government suit was dropped only after the ITU gave US carriers to call 3G with enhanced backbone 4G --but not 4G LTE.
So in the US, plain 4G is still being dropped as part of 3G.
You need an LTE service for the phone to continue working. And that's only if it has the proper bands.
That's a different service you're talking about. I believe that's called 3G-HSPDA which is not in this category. I don't recall them referring to that as 4G in recent memory. Possibly before...in the early stages of LTE
My phone is entertaining to watch some days. It will cycle through 2G, 3G, H, H+, LTE, LTE+, 5G and of course no service. This could be because the wind blew or a mouse farted. Any thoughts on why the old networks pop up?
@@robbraxmantech Yes, it was in the early stages of 4G. The slam dunk lawsuit was big news. The clever trick of getting the ITU to redefine the meaning of 4G was an incredible way to make the suit moot.
@@robbraxmantech makes me feel old but yea I remember this. If you were connected to lte it would show lte but if it showed 4g it was HSDPA+ aka 3g with a fiber back bone. In latter years it reversed 4g would show for an lte connection and H+ would show for HSDPA+. Seems like the carriers always pull this stuff with the next generation.
I think that American "4G" is what everyone else calls Turbo 3G.
Time to warm up my CB’s and ham gear again!
Switching from At&t to Verizon activated the VoLTE! Also, switching to T-mobile SIM for test also activated VoLTE. Let's get out of this nonsense from At&t.
I really appreciate you making this video. AT&T in particular has caught a lot of people by surprise by all this nonsense. Service turned off or phones being denied service for no good reason. I got dropped by Cricket Wireless from AT&T and lost service. Luckily I had another Sim Card at the time that I could use. It wasn't an unlimited one like I had with Cricket though. I ended up going back to Simple Mobile, which uses T-Mobile. I've used that every since with no real issues.
Isn’t cricket T mobile?
@@stonalisa3729 no cricket is At&t and T-Mobile is Metro
That's all excellent information & good to know. It's great to armed with information & prepared for all eventualities - just in case there are problems with the carrier. I assume that if I just put my exising SIM (which has already been activated) from my existing phone handset, into my new (Brax2) phone handset - it should all work fine.
Looking forward to getting my new Brax2 phone from batch 4. I understand that batch 4 is due to be shipped by the end of this week, but it may be a little while before I receive it via international post. My country's postal service is not exactly renowned for its speedy delivery times - though occasionally they do surprise me. I recently received 3 items in the post much more quickly than I expected - though they were not items from overseas. I guess if one lowers one's expectations to start with, one will never be disappointed, & can only be pleasantly surprised if delivery is quicker than expected.
It's disappointing to note, however, that some mobile phone carriers are obviously trying to take advantage of their customers, by telling them they need to purchase a new phone handset, because their existing handset is not compatible, when that is not the case at all. It's obviously a good money-making venture, if people then purchase a new handset from them, as a result. Or it might even be a deliberate rort/scam, on the part of the carriers.
Perhaps the trick is to just change carriers to one where one's phone handset will be accepted as compatible & supported. And make sure that the existing carrier knows that you are changing carriers, & the reasons for it. And give them some bad publicity in the process.
Thanks for the explanation. I tried PureTalk (AT&T) with a Samsung phone which worked until the 3G networks were abandoned. The very same phone works just fine with Mint and has 5G capability. I realized that ‘incompatibility’ was a carrier problem and not a device problem. It was clear that PureTalk would never work again, so I cancelled them and got a new number with Mint/T-Mobile. Fortunately, my primary service is Verizon with an iPhone 13, so I could ditch PureTalk.
I was with straight talk for 10 years, recently Version bought them out... They sent me a notice stating my phone A Galaxy S9+ would no longer work on their system, and I would have to change phones... They led me to a link of phones they sell... The exact phone I have was on that list for as much as I paid for it... That is exactly why I left Version for Straight talk... Version goes out of their way to rip you off...
I use ATT - I used a KeyOne (ATT branded, and would still work) but after 4 years, it got to the point I can't use it as a phone. So... I grabbed my old phone (a Blackberry Passport, also ATT branded, with 4G-LTE and VOIP) and slapped my sim into it - it immediately came up with a message that any call attempted would go to ATT customer service in order to arrange buying a new phone.
ATT is looking at the IMEIs and blocking anything not specificially white listed. It's scummy - and I ended up with a different phone than I wanted (I wanted a Unihertz Titan, ended up with an LG) - and for now that's ok - but I know I want a different phone not on their list. So depending on who will let them on their network, I may or may not be able to get the phone I actually want.
As I said, it's scummy. Also, they use hiding behind the "E-911" rules coming into effect, but anyone who understands how this stuff works knows its pretty much crap on their part.
so... what they are telling us is they are the ones truly responsible for the massive amounts of E-WASTE and not us?
I feel lucky to live in Europe. All of my old 2G, 3G, and 4G phones are still fully working!
Right. You can deepthroat those for a few more years before they cut off that service. Lucky!!
I'm with AT&T and got caught up in their 3g sunset. I was without cell service for 4 days. I was on the phone with tech support for 1 1/2 hours to get my phone working again. They tried to get me signed up with a new phone (I have a Samsung note 9) and works just fine. AT&T had to reset my sim card to get it working. I demanded to be compensated for loss of service. They only gave me a $15 dollar credit on my bill. I'm switching to T-Mobile. T-Mobile seems to be more into actually serving customers.
Just a heads up T mobile is firing any employee that does not take the covid shot. I'm switching my self when I get home.
@@cooperb4449 If you like the cell coverage from t mobile you can try Mint mobile. So much cheaper $15 unlimited but throttles after 35gigs.
@@cooperb4449 they also tried to get me to change phones because of this silly 3G nonsense. I paid the phone off and switched to Ting. I now pay $25 a month. I'm on wifi most of the time so no need for unlimited plan.
Now I have a cheaper plan. Tmobile was ripping me off and too woke for me.
@@JackOwens T mobile ripped me off for years. I see a lot of these comments switch to them and have a positive experience but I’ve had none. At least with my Verizon phone I was able to switch to a new SIM card whereas t mobile didn’t let me do
@@stonalisa3729 I would never buy a phone from a carrier again. I'd rather buy the phone myself even if it isn't a flagship model
I bought a Samsung S21+ about a year ago and although the camera is good the phone is much slower than my S9 was ! I am ruled by the TMob
Tmobil spamming older phones with "T-Mobile app has stopped" so annoying can't jailbreak out of it yet🤔
we now have dial phones at home and no cell phones when we are out. Why? In an emergency, everyone else has one. But, I went to a simple pager so people can reach me in emergencies
That's a pretty good idea. I heard pagers are harder to track because they don't broadcast only receive. Plus the added benefits of having no wifi, Bluetooth, or spyware apps.
You may count yourself among the truly intelligent humans
@@bobwoww8384 I saw your earlier comment where you wrote 'wreckrospect'.
It's 'retrospect, stupid.
Don't they teach you bots anything?
@@MA_808 Not me bud. When I misspell words its always and only plandemic. Try again
At my office with 4G i could watch vidoes and surf the internet no problem, never waiting longer that 20 seconds for anything to load, only 1 place in the center of the building has almost no connection with 4G. Now with 5G i can stand right next to a window, looking at the tower in the distance and still wait at least a minute for a simple video to load in 720P, sometimes it doesnt even load, my phone will say i have 4 out of 5 bars of 5G but it can barely load a simple youtube video in 720p. I personally think 5GE is a slow burning pile of garbage when compared to 4G. Thats just my experiences
Verified by my own Netgear M1 hotspot
It's because they're using the extra (but hidden to you) throughput for surveillance and data mining. Since the range and signal strength of 5G is worse than 4G, the first thing that will be compromised is the end user experience.
@@utewbd nah. The extra bandwidth is used by other users. There are 2 technologies using the same antenna: 4G and 5G (through band sharing). The companies provide 4G signal to most users and reserve a few Mhz for 5G in order to have the buzzword and ads that they're "5G capable". The reality is that there is so litle bandwidth asigned to 5G in those same antennas, that most of the time it's better to use traffic in 4G. I know its ridiculous, but antenna saturation is a thing and it sucks big time.
If you have boost watch out they took the 30 gb hotspot you had and made it data usage. So now you get half the total data paying the same amount
This is sad. People unnecessarily forced to buy new phones. Usable phones ending up in the landfill.
That would explain it. I travel, 48 state. Verizon has been slowly been reducing 4g signal. Slowly but noticeable. Used to be 98% coverage. Now 85.
I've noticed a fairly significant reduction. I used to have fast and reliable service, but over the last month, this is not the case.
Excellent and informative video, thanks for all you do Rob!
My company installed Mobile Routers on all our vehicles, and our offices, and all our old phones are running on WiFi! Even my trusty Note 3 still works fine.
Being a male, I hand a lot of stuff on my belt, and that stuff now has a small Mobile Router!
Now that is interesting
UK is a little better for this as everyone just uses GSM thankfully... I feel 4G will still be around for a while but I could be horribly wrong.
They're not rushing the tech there which is good news
GSM is fine, when 5g comes, if they get rid of everything else I'm throwing the phone, I know ill be happier
If it wasn't for the software issue I had with it I'd still be running the Droid turbo 2.
I'm still using the Samsung galaxy s10e and had to flash my phone with Tmo branded Android 12 to get my phone working again. It gets very frustrating that I can't flash custom software anymore unless I can get the bootloader unlocked or buy an unlocked phone.
I have a Samsung 9+. What does flash mean?
im a bit late to comment on this but Samsung themselves typically locks the boot loader on their newer phones. If you truly want a unlocked bootloader phone buy a Google pixel from Google then put a custom rom on it.
Absoultely. As usual you are trail blazing. Thank you brother.
My T-Mobile connection on iPhone XS Max is horrible since 5G/Sprint merger. It wasn't great before, but now it doesn't connect to anything while displaying 4 bars. Maybe it's 4 bars for 5G and not the services I can actually use.
It's called antenna saturation and it's a PITA. Think about it: imagine that before T-Mobile/Sprint merger, there were... let's say 100 users connected to a T-Mobile antenna, now, after the merger, there were 200 users connected to the same antenna. The antenna bandwidth would suck big time and would be unusable (which is what's happenning to you).
You are so right about these phone carriers. And they mislead consumers by stating that they get "unlimited" data. You do get "unlimited" data but the speed is throttled down after 22GB to where it's practically useless. It may take two to several minutes for a web page to load or not at all. Playing a TH-cam video will constantly buffer and only play at 144p if at all. T-Mobile seems like the best deal but their coverage is spotty in rural areas. I'm sick and tired of this crap.
The choices my carrier gave me were to pay money or to downgrade to a free flip phone. Jokes on them; my old phone is LTE, just not VoLTE, which means it can still do everything but make calls. In other words, I now have the perfect phone.
That's actually good. EXCEPT: They're charging you extra!
Just switch to signal and you won't notice a difference.
I had a Motorola G7 Play with Boost Mobile that I'm positive has 4G/LTE/VoLTE. They gave me the "discontinuing 3G" warnings for MONTHS but I ignored them because I knew my phone should stay compatible. I read horror stories online about how people got "free new SIM cards" that magically wasn't compatible with their phone, and then they were forced to buy a new phone! I wasn't going to fall for that nonsense so I just kept using what I had. One day the company started forwarding my outgoing calls to customer service. Just like you said, I dumped Boost immediately and they have lost a long time customer. I got a new phone (which I probably didn't have to) and switched to Cricket. I am now concerned they also use the AT&T network. I did know about MVNOs but didn't realize which service belonged to which network. If Cricket gives me any problems I won't hesitate to leave them as well. Thanks for this video!
Moto G7 Play is actually a 3G phone.
According to a help article from the manufacturer Boost is not supported although weirdly TMobile at&t and circuit are with volte? My question is how can it support volte with one carrier but not an mvno of that same carrier 🤷♂️. My suspicion is maybe it is because boost is under dish and they I thought were supposed to be building out their own infrastructure to be the 4th carrier in the us but for now are just utilizing T-Mobile network. That all had to do with the T-Mobile Sprint merger a while back.
Actually it seems boost is on unstable ground at the moment. From what I can gather there were an mvno for sprint until sprint was bought by T-Mobile. Some time during that it was acquired by dish. So they were using the old sprint network now apart of T-Mobile network but are now in the process of switching to AT&T as a hold over until dish builds its own network. Really kind of confusing.
Well Cricket was actually the company that turned off my service last year saying it wasn't compatible anymore. Of course that happened after I took the Sim Card out of it for a few minutes to try a different phone. Put it back in a few minutes later and suddenly had no service. They told me I needed a new phone, but since I had just recently bought that one, that wasn't happening. Luckily I had a different Sim Card I could use at the time. I used that for about a week and then activated a Sim from Simple Mobile. I've since heard that some have been able to get Cricket to work with them and some haven't. I could have and probably should have pushed the issue with Cricket, but honestly got tired of arguing with them and simply moved on.
@@lejoshmont2093 boost mobile is an mvno but was owned by sprint. The deal with fcc was tmobile take sprint, and then give dish network boost so dish network could replace sprint as the 4th major carrier. So there are still 4 major careies . Dish is just now one of them taking the place of sprint.
I have a 21 ultra and since Verizon has been switching towers to 5g it has no service 90 percent of the places I used to it including my house. When I do have service it goes in and out of 5g and even when full 5g with full bars its slower than ever. I've spent hours talking to Verizon techs and they all giving me the run around and for my house they say just use wifi calling. I'm canceling 5 phones with Verizon they are crooks.
I agree, Verizon in terms of crooks is the worst. I buy my phones unlocked thru the manufacturer and put mine on a T-mobile prepaid plan. I have been very happy ever since.
Thanks for the education. You confirmed what I already suspected: the carriers are lying! After a year of calls from AT&T trying to sell a new phone to replace my son's iphone 5 (which came out in 2012 but reportedly does not support VoLTE and thus incompatible starting last February), my son still using the phone which still works almost a year later! Perhaps they are going to turn something off eventually as you stated to free up bands for other use, but for now it really seems like this was all a gimmick to sell phones.
You DO understand our plight!! 💌
I called AT&T regarding no service in a certain area I drive a LOT. Gave them mile markers (rural) and all of my info.they have a new 5G tower out there and I've had crappy service there ever since(about a 15 mile stretch on the Interstate). I have the Galaxy Note 10+. They told me there is nothing they can do unless I can get 5 AT&T phones to corroborate.. I told her I'd rather quit their service. She didn't want that but there is "nothing we can do" without the 5 different phone numbers. There are 5 phones on our service, but that apparently doesn't count. Can't go to Verizon because I'm getting the Brax phone. Struggling here. I need my phone (I'm a Realtor). We are just getting T Mobile here do not sure on service. Still looking into it all.
So far I'm not impressed with 5g.
Part of the problem is regulatory. Having purchased spectrum at government auction, they have to show they're doing something with it.
19:00 I was at boost/T-mobile reseller a few days ago and they were offering free 5G phones with three months of minimum paid service and I grabbed one to use to activate sim cards if needed.
My crazy thought, setup some kind of mesh network and attach it to a series of drones, have a base station for them to charge at, maybe even have a way for them to connect to nearby drones and sap some power, perhaps even extend that with a solar panel on top and just keep them buzzing around to make a network. I'm thinking of either pogo pins or some sort of lightly magnetized connector port for quick connections and easy dismounts.
Do not stay committed to any carrier, unless you are in an area where only one dominates coverage.
If the company jerks you around, vote with your dollars, move to another. And only No-Contract, try the different MVNOs that use your carrier towers, find the right (cheap) plans that suit your need for GBs
You are exactly right. Verizon 5G isn't ready. Below is my experience.
I got a new phone on Verizon near the end of '22. The 5G worked poorly and only half the time, and was slow and no good in buildings. I took it back to best buy and the salesman had the same issue with his at&t phone. He fixed my phone by doing what he did to fix his. He reset the preference to 4G, and now it works fine. I called Verizon, and their solution was to restart the phone, That didn't help.I asked them if they were having trouble with 5G and the customer service admitted they were.
Spectrum in the So East is garbage, I want my iPhone camera back and their rules. Android blows
AFAIK this is mainly applicable to the US where LTE-A has falsely been advertised as "5G".
Over here in Europe we do have 5G networks up and running which are mostly "non-standalone 5G" ones. They still use a LTE core network but 5G "New Radio", say at around 3.6 GHz, which is the 5G pilot band. "Real 5G" will be using mmWave (6-100 GHz) frequencies as well as a 5G core network ("standalone 5G"). It's still debatable if you need the 1 ms latency that's supposed to go along with it, though. 3G networks have been / will be switched off here in Europe in order to free frequency bands for 5G-this is referred to as "refarming".
Yea I always thought the point of lte would be that they would make improvements to it but it would just be called lte. What makes it worse is my experience the carrier sabotaged 4g lte by throttling it to maybe 5mbps you would have to pay for "5G" to get the typical LTE speed of ~60mbps which is kind of scammy.
I have a dual SIM note 9 from overseas using AT&t prepaid and another non-american Sim, ATT is telling me that note 9 is a compatible phone, but because the model number of my specific note 9 ends with a different letter it's not on the allow/whitelist alongside the American model numbered note 9s.. what is extra interesting is that my AT&t data service works in USA, but not phone service, HOWEVER the AT&t phone service works while roaming in other countries!!!(likely because the roaming carriers are not enforcing the ATT whitelist). IT IS ABSOLUTELY FRUSTRATING, BORDERING ON CRIMINAL BY AT&T, especially because having had it brought to their attention they are not fixing the problem, instead trying to force the purchase of a new phone!
I switched carriers with ease..
Thanks for the tip!👍
I agree, AT&T sucks! especially after they confiscated private property, and put their oversized switch boxes on them, all over the country!!!
T-Mobile has been weak on signal where I live for two years. Living rural has serious disadvantages. Verizon seems to be the best in my area but I refuse to switch.
I had hard time with my carrier....they never sent me the new SIM card to activate my Samsung on their "enhanced" network since last Nov. Well late Feb I decided to walk into one of their stores and problem solved in 3 minutes! Only thing the rep said my phone is 5G now and I knew that was BS - "fake 5G" as you say on my 2018 vintage 4G LTE phone. I did a speed check on my phone with LTE only (no wifi - off) and I get 150/100 mbps d/u speeds - not 5G but not too shabby.
thank you for the great information! my carrier is pure talk (at&t) and they tell me that Samsung no longer supports the s9, therefore my note 9 can no longer make or receive calls. I installed wifi calling app and one day I forgot to turn on the wifi, but I received a call over lte. I'm curious to see what will happen in the days to follow.
AT&T customer here.
I have a Motorola One Hyper.
I purchased about 3 months before AT&T disabled 'new activations for 3G-only devices'.
Moto One Hyper uses VoLTE, and it was listed on Motorola's site as compatible with AT&T and VoLTE.
About 2 months after AT&T made the change, they shut off my phone because it's "incompatible". Customer support could not override it, and they referenced a PDF of whitelisted devices that could be activated. I purchased a phone on the list from Motorola, begrudgingly. (Moto One Fusion+)
Now, 2 years later, guess what's on the whitelist? The One Hyper!
So I'm back to that.
I switched to Tello, which uses T-Mobile. Their website is very well designed and answered all my questions. They state the required bands your phone must have compatibility with. I now only bring my own unlocked phone. It uses 4G voLTE. My Nokia 225 was terrible with it so I bought my own Jelly 2. Which works very well with the 4G. They verify that a phone will be compatible ONLY after you submit to them it's full imei number. I've never had to talk with customer service, which is nice.
Same As It Ever Was .
Samsung Galaxy Note 8 (4G LTE):
ATT's Note 8 continues to work, privately purchased Note 8's were kicked from all networks. (Private, bring-your-own-phones were kicked but those who bought from the carrier still work.) The differentiating issue, according to the tech, is a suffix to the phone model number, a "-1" (dash-one) at the end. So this makes one question what the benefits are to buying outright, especially when you can do this for less through the carrier, simply for agreeing to stay with them for 2 more years. I saved a couple hundred on my Samsung S22 Ultra doing this, and can still port it to another carrier as a non-att phone, according to ATT, after 2 years. We'll see.
I just got a new phone last month. But last year with my old phone, I often had poor call quality or dropped calls when I had full bars LTE, and with how old it was, it’s likely due to the voice being Analog 3G. It drove me insane, so glad to know why
Sounds like a lot of crap for something most people do not want
We just want consistent service. They want you to spend more money.
I have one purchased over the counter, 4GLTE, that Trac Phone upon being purchased by VZW told me was incompatible and I must buy new since none of the free replacement phones were available in my area. However, tech had no problem sending two SMS messages to that new incompatible device while trying to convince me that device would not make a phone call or send SMS messages. AS IF.
Wow...!
Another little mistake: the SIM switch doesn't work at some MVNOs which - against any standard - check the IMEI whether it's in their database. They make you call them to transfer the SIM. Boost is one of them.
I wonder about the mRNA & the combination of 5G.
True 5g doesn't have the penetration values that lower frequencies do... it's kind of a red herring. I won't say zero, but in reality, much lower than older freqs. The REAL worry is the data theft and metadata tracking that 5g does... the way it is set up by nearly all carriers, they have tracking on you even if you are trying to not be tracked. It's all for "your safety" - look up E911 that US is pushing through.
I don't need 5G. My 4G LTE works just fine.
When Verizon first started sending me warnings that my "3g" phone (really a fairly modern 4g phone) would stop working when they shut off the 3g network I wasn't that concerned since I figured my phone just wasn't in their database. At one point I spoke with a fairly knowledgeable tech support person and they mentioned the requirement for VOLTE support which I also have but seemed confident that it wouldn't be a problem. Then the wording of the notifications changed and they started saying that they would suspend phones that weren't supported. Suspending a line because they think a phone doesn't support the service is a very different thing then simply shutting off the 3g towers but no one at VZ seemed to recognize a distinction. I tried calling support to clarify things but I'm pretty sure the girl just thought I was some old man who didn't know I was using some ancient 3g phone. She kept trying to send me a really low end replacement phone that was inferior to my current one in every way. My phone was supposed to stop working last month but so far it's still ..
Rob,
Thank you for this in-depth video. I have some comments however…
First of all, I totally agree with you about AT&T. Not only from a mobile carrier perspective, but as a service provider, they have real support problems. They have been so bad in my daily IT work environment that I came up with an acronym - ARWATTS, to quickly refer to them, because it means:
Another Reason Why ATT Sucks
That said, I think you have some inaccuracies or missing information in what you said. Although a mobile phone may support the Bands or Channels that a carrier uses, if they use them for a different service, then it really does make the phone incompatible with their network.
Also, carriers allow phones to use their network provided that they can do some level of support for the customer using that device. If the carrier doesn’t have sufficient information about the phone, or has not trained their support staff about the specifics of that phone, it is better for them to say they do not support it on their network rather than to allow it on the network and then fail to provide adequate support when it has issues.
Regarding the SIM swapping you mentioned, the customer needs to make sure that the phone is not carrier locked; otherwise it will not work with another carrier’s SIM. AT&T seems to be the worst with selling SIM locked phones that require the customer to call and request an unlock. And they will only unlock it if the phone has been paid off.
The VoLTE support issue is strange, but it is likely the result of early VoLTE supporting phones using pre-standard or incompatible versions of VoLTE, and they cannot be updated to supported versions.
Carriers also have issues supporting older phones, particularly phones running the Android OS, because Android OS is such a fragmented OS, and the support model for new versions requires the carrier to test and certify each new release with all the phones that could potentially be on their network, because the OS updates are generally pushed from the carrier. It is a bad model, but it results in lots of phone churn. IOS updates are always done by the end user, directly with Apple, and do not require any carrier intervention or support.
We are not talking about a simple phone here. It's a hand held computer with phone and text capabilities built in.
Last year I temporarily broke my iPhone 7+ and stuck the SIM card in my old iPhone 5S which also has LTE, it worked for about 2 minutes and att remotely locked my SIM card, forcing me to drive to the nearest store 25 miles away to get a new card
They told me the old iPhone wasn’t compatible and before they gave me the new card, they unblocked my account or old card, whatever it was, the old iPhone started getting voice and data again while i was in the store, the employees looked stunned and didn’t elaborate to me what the deal really was…
There tried selling me a new iPhone and I declined it. I got my old phone fixed later on instead.
They just block accounts/SIM cards when the SIM card moves to another device and lie. Hopefully gaining a sale. Lol
Now I’ve got a new iPhone with an “E Sim” which i do not like since I can’t swap phones anymore.
At&t is horrible. Switched to mint. Definitely good advice here. Thanks
What an informative video. Thank you for educating me on the different bands.
My former service provider was MINT (T-Mobile) that I had for four years. There were times I couldn't get any service in town, experienced lots of dropped calls, and sometimes couldn't get calls to go through . Frustrating! (And not so cheap of service in the end.)
Switched service in April '22: My 6 month old Samsung is 5G, a top model, Verizon's the carrier, I live in a major city near a major university, service is reliable albeit more expensive, but the 5G service is spotty at best. When I have 5G, there's a major difference in data transfer, almost as good as the WiFi at my home, which is excellent.
An interesting note: China touts there's 5G everywhere, but the 5G service is turned off at night because it consumes a lot of power. It makes me wonder about domestic service.
That last advice on how to bypass the sim switch, i changed my sim to another phone i had used with att for years and they network locked me where i couldnnt send data or call anyone but att. I raised hell but they told me not to switch sims anymore even tho ive been on a plan for years..
I'm on at&t. Using an S8 Active. I actually got a text from AT&T telling me to turn VOLTE on. I didn't. A couple of weeks ago I couldn't make or receive calls but had data. Turned Volte on and had voice again. Now I know a little more about my phone!!!
That's really interesting. That's kinda an "old" phone. Though it was kinda a more work phone so maybe there is a market force for continued support.
And no point in arguing with a Rep. Just wasting time, leave the carrier if you have problems. There are no contracts.
@20:39 lololol -We all suffer buddy. My employer is contracted/partnered with one of these carriers and the uneducated staff issues have predated the change to 5G. To that point, we are ALL the ones to suffer these consequences. I want to shout out and thank you for your informative vods and personal research you share with the general public re. privacy, freedom, tips and tricks and most notably-taking back power we all deserve when it comes to our education on data, privacy, information and choices that are obfuscated by data harvesting companies.
In reality in America there is no competition and price is the highest for a bad service.
I never used at&t but I got water damage on my phone. The phone started to show signs of this within the next few days. I purchased a new mainboard to replace the problem instead of getting a new phone. The board is unlocked so when I got ahold of a rep, I just told them my old phone got damaged and got a new one, so I didn't have to explain every detail. T-Mobile told me the phone was not unlocked, but put the sim card in and 1hr later was working on the network.. so that was a false. Just over that fact, they lied to me and the service is bad at best in my area. I switched carriers when my service ended.
This was not even about compatible, and T-Mobile dropped the ball even on that..
Rob, thank, you for the info. I'm probably in your age range. I've had a phone 2016 with boost which usually says is Sprint, but your info says AT & T. My Samsung Galaxy J7 phone says it is 4G LTE but for the past 9 mos Boost has been hounding me that my 3G network phone is not going to be supported. At that time, no date, but last 3 mos date for, as you said in this video 3-31-22. I had a while ago, bought a new phone but didn't activate it, a Samsung Galaxy A20. I waited. It's a 4G LTE but newer. I tried to call Boost but difficult to get thru, long wait time to tell them to bug off! So I just went ahead & activated the new phone. I was really fine with the old one. It was doing fine. Boost offered a free phone 5G but when I looked up the reviews, I found bad reviews. So since I had the new one already I'm sticking with it. I usually like boost because the monthly no contract price is low. I had Cingular way back when which was bought by AT&T and I agree AT&T suck!! So thank you for all your info.
Ironic you're going full circle as boost is switching to the at&t network before dish can deploy its own.
@@lejoshmont2093 Yes I asked Boost rep who was the service & they said AT&T
This is stupid. I still use my iPhone 3G, which does pretty much everything, and it's going to stop working tomorrow. Complete scam.
Exactly. A-holes
I know I probably shouldn't have, but we got the S22 Ultra...I wanted the S-pen & its features & the cameras.
My GOD I have been nothing but angry for so many things! Dual messaging apps that you can't even remove, only disable & even though 1 is supposedly Google & the other Samsung, the Samsung one's info in 'about' goes to GOOGLE CUZ WHY NOT?!
App permissions are a nightmare, some basic-feeling features (like seeing whether a msg was delivered or not) are made annoying as ZUCK, like, I don't need a notification EVERY TIME I SEND A MSG FOR ZUCK'S SAKE.
Some stupid glitch happened with the permissions screen to where it shows a BLANK ZUCKING PAGE (workaround that zucks with high contrast theme lets you at least see the text outline)
my mother's phone is somehow different from mine in the apps shown, permissions for some apps, various settings & other random schitts that makes no zucking sense since everything is on the same exact version on both devices. EVERYTHING.
I went on a yelling, raging rant today (sorry mom) & this is the first time I legitimately regret getting new phones...I know Lineage OS isn't really supported for it yet either (I don't think) so can't really fix any of this.
but no way am I returning the devices now with any usage devices. I'll wait a bit & then degoog 100%.
I thought domestic (Qualcomm) Samsungs had a locked boot loader and you couldn't load a custom ROM on them. Is this no longer the case?
Yes I have been like this "5g" is slower than 4g
Yep as soon as my contract is up I’m done,going to a dumb flip phone and down grading to bare minimum!
Can you still buy a flip phone? I can't find one. Are you sure they're 4G?
I had a customer service rep also tell me recently that my phone wouldn't work on their network without band 12 like you stated here. Now it's always been my understanding that band 12 was mostly used for low signal areas and in very dense buildings. I check my signal band somewhat often, especially when the signal is low. My phones have rarely switched to band 12 unless the signal there was indeed bad or was becoming weak for whatever reason. Depending on the phone and area, my phones were almost always on band 4, 17, or band 66. At home where my signal is weak and bands limited, it's usually on band 2 T-Mobile or 17 AT&T. At work depending on where I am, I move around sometimes, it's usually band 2, 4, or now band 41. Seems a new tower added band 41 and my phone has been picking it up and holding it recently. Regular b41 and not 5G N41 unfortunately. Still band 41 speeds have been pretty impressive. I feel the needing band 12 customer rep comments are an outright lie though.
A year ago, I had to abandon my perfectly good Xiaomi Redmi 9 that was less than a year old, because -- according to AT&T -- even though it supported 4g LTE, it used 3g to establish a connection with the network. To compensate me for my loss, AT&T practically gave me a Galaxy S22, which in many respects (especially battery capacity) is anemic in comparison to my Redmi 9, in spite of being one of Samsung's flagship models. To make matters worse, with AT&T's "assistance," I lost access to my large Kindle library due to log-in issues. And being constantly glued to a charger with no significant increase in performance is a constant pain.
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Thank you for helping so many people with your knowledge. You never act or communicate with arrogance. We all appreciate your kind and friendly demeanor.
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I have been using T-Mobile from back when they were Voicestream (previously *Powertel* in my area). I have an iPhone 5 and it still works, aside from a couple of battery changes. However, I buy prepaid SIMs for other uses (i.e. work phone), but these newer SIMs, purchased from T-Mobile will not work in the iPhone 5. It works fine in an iPhone SE and other (newer) iPhones but not the iPhone 5. My regular (old) SIM works fine in the 5; in fact, it will still work in an older flip phone which uses GSM/GPRS.
So I think they are just not provisioning the newer SIMs for voice channel connections anymore.
LOL I don’t need to communicate with ANYONE that BADLY😃
Oh, boy.. I'm one of those who has an ancient Moto Nexus 6. Yes, it still works. But I got that notice thing and have to figure all this crap out. Another project I don't want ! I'm ready to " cut the ( cellular cord ) Going to smoke signals and paper airplanes.
That was such a good phone
5g is why I am sticking with my note 9 and G8Xs. What they really want to do is put antennas and repeaters everywhere so not only can they know your whereabouts by meta and cell towers but to also draw heat maps.
Hope you don't leave wifi or Bluetooth on. Yea I pretty much said the same thing when they started talking about using higher frequencies with 5g.