Pressure is increasing on the Federal Communications Minister to intervene and delay the 3G Mobile Network shutdown as it is revealed 1 million devices will be affected.

Australians will take a big hit if
3G shuts down
Senator Roberts said: ‘The next CrowdStrike style disaster is around the corner with the looming shutdown of the 3G network.
‘Telstra, Optus and TPG confirmed today a total of 1 million devices will be affected next month when the network is taken offline.
‘This disaster is still looming despite the telco companies claiming they’ve completed a huge education and public awareness campaign.
‘The Communications Minister must intervene and defer the planned shutdown of the 3G network.
‘Affected devices also include more than 50,000 4G mobiles and an unknown number of pacemakers still reliant on the 3G network to call 000. The shutdown is still a matter of life and death.
‘While telcos claim to have done all they can to make mobile owners aware, the Senate Inquiry has heard witness after witness testify that very few people realise how many other critical devices rely on 3G and will be useless in just over a month.
‘These affected devices include water and power meters, medical refrigeration units, agriculture equipment, pacemakers, medical alarms, airport lifts and many others.
‘Witnesses across the two days of public hearings at the One Nation initiated Senate Inquiry included the Royal Flying Doctor Service sounding the alarm on behalf of regional communities, the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry as the country’s largest business network, government complaints authorities, technical experts and many others.
‘Are the telcos only pursuing the 3G shutdown for their own profits and to sell new mobile phones?
‘The Minister will be responsible for CrowdStrike 2.0 in just over a month unless she immediately makes it clear she will intervene and put the public interest before telco profits.’

Dandy, agree on a number of points. As you said, next to go will be 4G then 5G. It’s the plan.
At a guess, in 30 years the only people with a mobile phone, rather than being linked to the cloud (via chip implantation at birth or self-assembled communication nano-tech) will be the special people who now seek to control humanity. Team Parasite.
There must be something missing in the 3G phones, eg, the ability to read its user and/or convey data for the purpose of digital ID/IoT. Target acquisition is a fail with the old 3G system?
As for landlines, keep it. Author Timothy Schoechle (Reinventing Wires—The Future of Landlines and Networks) advocates for landlines, both for efficiency and for health reasons. Predictable that the precautionary principle was deliberately thrown out the window for what looks like nefarious reasons now.
Team Parasite wants people wi-fried because TP want to be creators in hell and of hell.
All Senator Roberts has to do is ask the Telcos WHY they have to turn off 3G.
There is no reason.
It’s on the same frequency as 4G and 5G mobile technology.
Ask them WHY.
It’s up to the Corporate Government entity to require a reasonable response from their private Corporate buddies.
The public should never have had their landlines taken off them in the first place to now be left in the lurch.
The people with pacemakers would be part of the IoT (Internet of things) connected to some (different) WBAN frequency (I’m guessing). That’s an issue for them and their Interventional Cardiologists.
The people mostly using 3G are people who are not that into ‘mobile’ 2.4 GHz microwave biologically damaging technology in the first place.
If they were, they would have updated by now.
They don’t care about those people.
Get with the program….by force.
You’re Gruberment doesn’t give a continental about you moaning about 3g, to be honest you were lucky to have phone service at all.
Up here in the cape we lost a critical satellite service on 15 march 2024 and the 250,000 od commonwealth grubs that are paid to represent us did not do a bloody thing.
Thats over 130 days now with miners, farmers, trucking companies, travellers without the ability to call 000 in an emergency.
BUT DON’T PANIC PEOPLE’S!
By the end of this year Australia will have Direct to Cell. So your 4g phone will work directly from satellite to a normal 4g phone.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2024/02/26/elon-musks-spacex-makes-first-x-post-from-starlink-satellite-in-space/
“who wants their life managed by some distant Telco freak”
Every moron who wants his/her existence subject to being switched off at the flick of a switch.
Every fool who wants to leave his/her body functions vulnerable to close range manipulation.
Every injected human MAC address paired to a mobile device talking to a nearby transmission tower.
Every injected human MAC address responding to specific modulation signals piggybacking on a carrier wave, e.g. bio-frequency modulation of human organs!
Every fool who hasn’t worked out it’s about UNPRECEDENTED mass population control and manipulation as opposed to convenience.
We have already dumped the devices that allow scams and control devises. OK ? there are many things we cannot do but who is the bimbo who wants their life managed by some distant Telco freak. The public are just so vunerable to scams and control should they adopt this intended network change. As we have seen hundreds will make the obvious decision and turn off their mobile phones.
Good post Cosh.
NB (narrow band) – IoT, small packets of data penetrates walls, trees, underground and covers large areas over long distances, smart city, remote asset tracking, devices will be powered by the human body’s motion, chemistry.
5G is for large packets of data, said to not penetrate walls, trees, underground, and is impacted by weather, covers short distances.
https://www.digi.com/blog/post/nb-iot
IoT Internet of Things is already up and running. Humans are ‘Things’
https://www.optus.com.au/living-network/coverage
Besides this is a perfect opportunity for users to dump their phones altogether. I did 2020, we got by just fine before these radiation track and trace killers were in our pockets.
Turn off 3G…Then 4G…Then 5G.
All just 2.4GHz or 5GHz frequency mobile phone technology.
Meanwhile the mobile towers and the wide web of ‘infrastructure’ is being rolled out for a 24GHz mm wave, extremely high (military) microwave frequency, biologically harmful ‘weapon’.
For Smart cities…gaming…and Digital ID communications.
Play with your phones for now.
It’s just to keep you distracted as you watch their technology go up.
If you want to fight for anything fight to get your phone lines back, cable, fibre optics, ethernet.
Fight to have the right to have nothing to do with their mobile ‘technology’ which is not for you, it’s for them.
All the dirt on CrowdStrike amazing stuff
youtube.com/watch?v=ryjzaLz0uDA
huge public awareness campaign.my arse.these telcos are full of shit..i have seen no advertising anywhere re this 3G shut down..especially as 3G works fine for those using it..
Ironic that I won’t be able to call an ambo, fire brigade or police if I chance upon one of the demonic architects of the current democide should s/he/they/it need assistance. Pat & Paul, yes, profit from planned obsolescence = trap.
I’ve no interest in helping them out ever.
You are fighting a losing battle.
Government is not interested in the survival of we, the people, or the necessity of technology that they have created the need for us to buy into, but they are very interested in pushing us towards 5G technology that uses wifi to connect to our bodies…those that were injected with the Covid technology…that they can use to manipulate those who are becoming cyborgs.
The Government corporation is going to kill you, and you had better wake up and do something about it before they pull your pin.
This is the business model. It’s an ethically bankrupt racketeering business model, the sort of business that people like creepy Bill have amassed incredible fortunes from, all at our expense.
Continued revenue depends on FORCING (no “choice”, folks, it’s either THEIR way or NOTHING) the Useless Eaters to keep on UPGRADING to new devices with features and costs AND NEW DANGERS that we really don’t need when the devices that we already have are working perfectly fine.
And they also want to make sure that EVERYONE is forced into a situation where they can string that Digital ID noose around your necks.
How did we ever cope when the microwave towers weren’t even functioning 6 months ago ? This is a GIANT con & we are all walking into it . Good luck.