Ich fühle mich richtig getrieben von der Industrie. Ich habe ein Pixel 3a Handy. Das ist jetzt 5 Jahre alt und funktioniert super, ich liebe es! Google hat es schon lange aufgegeben. Zum Glück stellt CalyxOS immer noch so gut es geht Updates bereit. Doch nun kommt mein Carrier und stellt im Sommer 3G ab. Das Gerät kann VoLTE, doch der Provider hat es nicht in dessen Whitelist freigegeben. Ich werde zum Neukauf genötigt, obwohl ich mein Handy gerne weiter nutzen würde. #sustainability #volte

Ubuntu Touch VoLTE support rollout begins, starting from Fairphone 5 and Volla 22.

#Ubuntu #Linux #UbuntuLinux #UbuntuTouch #UBports #Fairphone #Volla #Fairphone5 #Volla22 #VoLTE #cellular #TechNews #TechUpdates

https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2025/04/03/ubuntu-on-phones-now-receive-initial-volte-support/

@phlogiston @torproject @guardianproject at least @BNetzA & @Bundesregierung didn't cancel #2G / #GSM / #EDGE with the #3Gshutdown like #Australia did recently.

• Seriously, the Ozzies mandate #VoLTE and literally block #ImportPhones based off #IMEI!

[Listening] "Clément Viktorovitch : "Damasio me donne l'espoir qu'une idée bien formulée peut changer le monde""
Le politologue évoque La zone du dehors, qui m'a également énormément marqué !
#SF #democratie #Volte #dystopie #politique #guerre #IA #notation
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/le-souffle-de-la-pensee/clement-viktorovitch-sur-la-zone-du-dehors-d-alain-damasio-2283244

@ada yeah, but then again Oz is ruled by #TechIlliterate #Wankers who decided to not only shutdown both #2G & #3G but literally #ban #importPhones and basically lock-out any device that desn't do #VoLTE their way...

And yes, they enforce that like #Turkey enforces people to register imported devices 30 days after import:

• With an #IMEI - #BanList!

So if you are i.e. a #Tourist in #DownUnder and you got some serious issue, you can't even call their emergency services on 000 cuz your devices got yeeted off the network through no fault of your own!

Seriously, #Australia's #2G & #3G #Shutdown and #IMEI-based #Blocklisting WILL inevitably kill people

And the only "tool" there is is #Telstra's Website and just teting random IMEIs only yields two possible results:

1. 'We don't know this device at all'

2. "'We've not blocklisted it'*

Even when testing it with obvious #2Gonly & #3Gonly devices that certainly don't support #VoLTE...

I have an old unlocked Huawei E160 USB 3G dongle that is enabled for Voice that I have plugged into an #Asterisk system with asterisk-chan-dongle to make/receive calls and SMS.

Has anybody found an equivalent LTE USB adaptor (or possibly an Android Mobile Phone) that works the same? Double bonus would be if it could do data at the same time.

There are open issues against the plugin but no definitive answers.

https://github.com/bg111/asterisk-chan-dongle

It really is a shit show, so many phones that work perfectly fine being blocked because they weren't brought from a Telco.
https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/s/zbai96hqH3
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-03/brand-new-phones-unable-to-make-calls-3g-shutdown/104541440
#3gshutdown #australia #volte #auspol

It really is a shit show, so many phones that work perfectly fine being blocked because they weren't brought from a Telco. www.reddit.com/r/aus... www.abc.net.au/news/... #3gshutdown #australia #volte #auspol

@shaknais No, #VoLTE - like any #tech - can't and won't solve issues caused by #humans being #malicious and/or #corrupt, espechally since it's a #blackbox that the user can't even verify a checksum or fingerprint of.

• Whereas with #PGP one can use #DueDiligence, #MFA & #WebOfTrust independently from each other to verify things!

• You're goalposting, so the entire conversation is just a waste of time and traffic for me.

@shaknais I am pissed off because they don't avtually ban #SS7 but yeet #2G & #3G without having #VoLTE work or being a open standard.

• If politicans were actually listening, they'd not ban #SecureCommunications (like with #cyberfacist #DECCD & "#ChatControl" bs.) but instead invest in #TechLiteracy and #mandate #PGP encryption.

@shaknais Yeah, but that's a general issue that won't go away that way.

• It's a hamfisted approach like #Sony removing #OtherOS from the #PS3 instead of updating their #Hypervisor accordingly.

It your #NatSec can be cormpromised by #SS7 and your military personnel doesn't employ basic #ITsec, #InfoSec, #OpSec & #ComSec, then I'd call that criminal neglect and at that level one may just give up on the entire illusion of NatSec instead.

• Also that Shutdown is in #Australia, not the #USA, but regardless, Nations could just ban #SS7 instead (if they weren't busy developing #Govware all the time - see #OperationIronside !) and/or invest in actually #secure and #OpenSource infrastructure instead.

OFC #GSM itself is full of Govware-#Backdoors ranging from the A5/x - series of ciphers to it's core structure, but sadly we now got that shitshow and have to workaround it.

• #VoLTE just isn't reliable enough for #EmergencyServices - even civilian ones...

A #PSA for anyone living, staying, entering or even travelling to/from #Australia:

Apparently, #Australia decided to mandate it's #GSM systems to be shutdown because some #GalaxyBrainChair wanted to yeet #2G & #3G and demand everything to use #4G & #5G when in fact #VoLTE support is spotty at best and #EmergencyCalling oftentimes is explicitly hardcoded to not use #WIFIcalling or VoLTE as providing #triangulation and #LocationData via #SS7 is a desired feature when someone calls EMS, Fire Dept or the Police for help...

• So essentially #tourists and anyone who hasn't an explicitly fully VoLTE-functional device they tested and verified to also do #EmergencyCalls via VoLTE are fecked with no reception when they need it the most!

• This WILL KILL PEOPLE!!!

As much as we want to bitch about #GSM & #GPRS / #UMTS being #outdated and #inefficient, there are reasons to at least keep 2G available - ranging from lower power consumption to higher resilience in emergency situations.

• #NewZealand for example does shutdown non-#EmergencyCalls during severe #Earthquakes so that people trapped and/or in need of urgent assistance can get through to dispatch operators and everyone else has to get in line and take a number aka. use #SMS or if existing #Internet to say "I'm fine!"...

• If the Ozzies really need that juicy #UHF #SubGHz #Spectrum it's totally feasible to instead change the #allocations and reconfigure #CellularNetworks to use lesser bandwith for 2G (i.e. only keeping the absolute mininum of channels available for any service) and thus clear up space...

And to add insult to injury, Australia passed a #NorthKorea|n-alike #CellPhone #ImportBan for any device that doesn't do i.e. the bespoke proprietary garbage that i.e. #Telstra, #Vodafone and #Optus do with the #baseband modems of their #branded devices...

Seriously, which #TechIlliterate dickhead decided it's a good idea to do that #3Gshutdown in Australia without even a basic 2G network up and running at all?

• At least #Switzerland [AFAIK] still has #3G up and running (tho it would've been wiser to do it like #Germany and keep #2G as emergency fallback with it's functions like #CellBroadcast....