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Originally Posted by floyd
Does this "newer cell tower" thing only apply to Nextel trac phones?
I have an old Nokia phone which is more than ten years old, will it quit working with cell towers any time soon?
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Not just Nextel, so yes for your Nokia quitting some day, because...
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Originally Posted by fusedlight
Technology changes. The old networks could only fit so much into a given bandwidth. People do so much with cell phones now they have to reclaim some of those old, slow, frequencies.
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The oldest analog phone (the
AMPS system) is already generally not supported. The earliest all-digital standards have now been around for two decades; their days are numbered, but I have not heard about specific timing.
This isn't literally a question of replacing cell system towers, but changing the equipment which operates from them, and the way it operates.