They're not the ones that care about tracking us, they care about making t most money with the least spend. We were already tracked well enough on 2g/3g anyways. :)
By retiring the older networks they get to re-use tower space, saving cost They get to force people to buy new phones, increasing revenue. They have more opportunity to charge outrageous overage charges with little or no warning, which increases their revenues.
And, they all know they need to be competitive.
That being said, I wonder what sort of market would be available to T-mobi or another provider if they committed to keeping their legacy networks around? Would there be enough people with flip phones and 3G iphones to ma it a selling point?
True. The cell companies keep us buying new phones with planned obsolesce,
and attempt to lure you in with another 3 year contract. I do wish there was just a basic phone system that they would leave alone for talk and text. GSM was fine for this, but is pretty much a thing of the past and so is a nice compact little phone for just making calls and sending texts.
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