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The Government is letting greeting telco companies charge ahead with the “3G shutdown”. This is deceptive because it is really a 4 and 5G shutdown as well.
The government quietly published a new rule that will force telco companies to block up to 250,000 perfectly functioning 4 and 5G mobile phones under the cover of the shutdown. This is a disaster and the government is letting telcos make billions while they abandon their customers.
⚠️ Attention
For people with some 4G and 5G phones or 3G phones and devices including health and safety monitors – the federal government is serving multinational corporations and risking hundreds of thousands of lives.
My successful senate motion initiated a senate inquiry into the Telstra-Optus shutdown of 3G networks. The inquiry exposed the fact that more than a million devices and phones would not work once 3G is shutdown, including emergency health devices and monitors – many 4G phones that depend on 3G network for 000 emergency calls.
The inquiry exposed that Labor Communications Minister, Michelle Rowland and her Department and Australian Communication & Media Authority (ACMA) were hopelessly ignorant of the threat to so many lives in Australia. And did not care.
The inquiry exposed the lack of standardisation and the incompatibility of 4G phones – a Telstra-Optus rort worth billions of dollars. It stops competition, limits customer choices and compromises safety.
In response to facts witnesses presented and were never refuted, the shutdown was delayed a token month. We learned that many other countries including the UK have decided to keep the 3G networks running for several more years. The premature 3G shutdown here is going ahead in just a few days!
A telco expert sent me a text message:
Just letting you know that Telstra has started blocking devices that actually work perfectly for 000 on 4G.
My devices were kicked off around 10 AM EST. I can’t even make an emergency call on Telstra’s network anymore with those devices. Just with Optus.
Telstra only notified customers about their devices being totally blocked on midday Friday with an SMS.
Many customers are now unable to contact anyone as they have no Data or SMS either.
Disgraceful. Inhuman. Irresponsible.
The federal government is serving corporations and risking lives.
The Australian Government on both sides support big corporations ahead of the general voting population…there should be a Royal Commission and Anti -corruption hearing with regards to Covid, net zero and the monopoly of telcos
This will come back and bite them on the bum , they are bringing an end to the way we live to survive and creating chaos , havoc and division by introducing hard core anti social changes .
This government ( like the greens and teals) are an evil dangerous body of leaders who need to be terminated