Stryder50
Platinum Member
I came across this a couple weeks ago, and as can be seen, the change has happened. How many have had adverse issues/complications ?
On the morning of Feb. 23, millions who depend on a 3G wireless connected device for medical emergencies, fires, burglaries or carbon monoxide detection will find their lives needlessly at risk. These devices will not work when AT&T shuts down its 3G network on Feb. 22, threatening tens of millions of people relying on them in their homes and businesses.
Known as the 3G sunset, those affected include hundreds of thousands of people who have personal emergency response systems (PERS). Over 85 percent are seniors, live alone and are 100 percent dependent on these to summon health emergency services, critically important if they fall. In addition, well over a million burglar and fire alarm systems will fail, causing needless havoc for residential and commercial consumers. Millions of older cars will lose connectivity for collision avoidance, summoning 911 and other emergency services, ankle bracelet monitoring systems for violent criminals used by the judicial system won't work and school bus monitoring systems protecting students won't work either.
If it sounds like a bad movie plot, it isn't, it's real and the Alarm Industry Communications Committee (AICC) takes this very seriously. We have and will continue to do everything in our power to protect the American public from this looming disaster scenario.
Starting with AT&T, cell phone companies are shutting down their existing 3G networks so they can repurpose that spectrum to support their more advanced networks. To be very clear, we support moving to 5G that will provide faster downloading of information as America needs to remain globally competitive. However, repurposing the spectrum from AT&T's 3G network for their 5G network will not provide consumers with the much-hyped promise of faster downloading of data, games and movies.
Since the wireless providers published notification shutting down their 3G networks three years ago, the AICC and its members have been working tirelessly to upgrade existing alarm systems that communicate over the 3G networks, most of which require technicians to make in-person home or business appointments to replace wireless radios with newer models and training customers to use them. AT&T's 3G shutdown is the earliest and therefore creates a timing issue.
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The looming 3G shutdown comes with life-threatening risks
...On the morning of Feb. 23, millions who depend on a 3G wireless connected device for medical emergencies, fires, burglaries or carbon monoxide detection will find their lives needlessly at risk. These devices will not work when AT&T shuts down its 3G network on Feb. 22, threatening tens of millions of people relying on them in their homes and businesses.
Known as the 3G sunset, those affected include hundreds of thousands of people who have personal emergency response systems (PERS). Over 85 percent are seniors, live alone and are 100 percent dependent on these to summon health emergency services, critically important if they fall. In addition, well over a million burglar and fire alarm systems will fail, causing needless havoc for residential and commercial consumers. Millions of older cars will lose connectivity for collision avoidance, summoning 911 and other emergency services, ankle bracelet monitoring systems for violent criminals used by the judicial system won't work and school bus monitoring systems protecting students won't work either.
If it sounds like a bad movie plot, it isn't, it's real and the Alarm Industry Communications Committee (AICC) takes this very seriously. We have and will continue to do everything in our power to protect the American public from this looming disaster scenario.
Starting with AT&T, cell phone companies are shutting down their existing 3G networks so they can repurpose that spectrum to support their more advanced networks. To be very clear, we support moving to 5G that will provide faster downloading of information as America needs to remain globally competitive. However, repurposing the spectrum from AT&T's 3G network for their 5G network will not provide consumers with the much-hyped promise of faster downloading of data, games and movies.
Since the wireless providers published notification shutting down their 3G networks three years ago, the AICC and its members have been working tirelessly to upgrade existing alarm systems that communicate over the 3G networks, most of which require technicians to make in-person home or business appointments to replace wireless radios with newer models and training customers to use them. AT&T's 3G shutdown is the earliest and therefore creates a timing issue.
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