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3G Shutdown: 258,000 4G/5G Phones to be Blocked from November! - Gov Blocking Rules Now 'In Force'!

www.change.org 3G Shutdown: 258,000 4G/5G Phones to be Blocked from November! - Gov Blocking Rules Now 'In Force'!

Hi Petition Signers, The worst case scenario is now upon us! On Thursday afternoon (24/10) the ACMA finalised the changes to the Minister's Emergency Calling Rules. The Government & Regulators are forcing the Telcos to Block 258,000 4G/5G Phones from 1 November!With 297,000 phones affected in total ...

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I'm late to all of this going on but now am very much impacted by it.
The end of the BYOD phones. Using a Xperia 1 V that is now to be near to useless when out, and I am only 1 of 250,000+ people who are gonna be pushed into buying phone directly from telco instead of actually picking phones that suite our interests and needs (as well as OS for those running anything that isn't adroid or iOS).
I've contacted Sony to see if they will comment on the matter, but it is a shame this has happened at all in the first place.
I would recommend anyone to read James Parkers full article on the matter:
https://medium.com/@jamesdwho/australias-3g-shutdown-telcos-to-block-working-4g-5g-phones-2bf41e95de8a#a501
I apologize If this isn't the right place to post this.
- I don't think BYOD has anything to do with this. It's just kicking devices off the network because their modems won't support VoLTE. You can still buy an outright phone and flash whatever ROM you want on it.
  
  BYOD, as in Bring You Own Device, hence buying and importing phones that you wouldn't typically see on a Telstra plan.
  Whether or not a device can actually support VoLTE unfortunately actually has very little to do with what is and isn't being blocked; even the industry itself doesn't know what 100% will and won't be affected, as there are devices that are told to be ready for post 3G shutdown, but in testing they are not emergency VoLTE ready, and so will not be able to make emergency calls after the shutdown, and no matter what you put on the phone, if the IMEI number isn't on a compatible registry, that phone will be blocked.
  I do highly suggest reading the article, as it does go more into depth on everything (as well as the Change.org petition). I am "tech aware," to a degree; however, I am not at all well knowledged, just something I genuinely very much feel needs to be shared.
  
  No. This includes 4G and 5G devices. 3G devices will just stop working when the 3G network is shut down and don't need to be blocked.
  My phone is set to LTE only in my modem config, all of my calls are via VoLTE, my phone will still be blocked.