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    10 months ago

    What percentage of people use 3g only phones? If it’s 1%, does it make sense to keep those services running just for those people?

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        10 months ago

        Great! You can get 4g/5g versions of those devices because, again, the world doesn’t owe the 1% of users services

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        10 months ago

        It’s still a small number of users no matter how many use cases you list. There are newer Kindles and newer cars. 3g being turned off is inevitable no matter how many old devices are in existence.

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        10 months ago

        It’s not overloaded because fewer people use it, so it costs more to run those services for less benefit