From: michael.trew@att.net   
      
   On 12/4/2022 17:31, Bill Horne wrote:   
   > As most of my readers know, I've been dissatisfied with Verizon Mobile,   
   > and the way it has demanded that those like my wife, who had “4G” phones   
   > which were not “4G” enough to suit their taste, buy new cell phones to   
   > enable her to keep paying exorbitant amounts of money to Verizon Mobile   
   > so she can “enjoy” the “benefits” of something called “volte” -   
   whatever   
   > that may be.   
      
   Since I mentioned T-Mobile in a prior post, I should note that T-Mobile   
   is also requiring VoLTE now.  From my understanding, VoLTE means "voice   
   over LTE"... phones without this capability, even if they are 4G phones,   
   cannot make voice calls over the 4G network (voice always falls back to   
   2/3G) -- only data goes over 4G.  Perhaps this means that Verizon truly   
   is retiring CDMA for good at the end of December.   
      
   ***I still use an absolutely ancient Nokia 3395 via T-Mobile's   
   network... it works on 2G only.  It's still functional, but it remains   
   to be seen when they will shut the network down.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)