Australia To Block Internationally Purchased 4G/5G Phones As Part of 3G Shutdown - Starting 1st Nov

If your provider is unable to verify VoLTE support for your device, it may be blocked from Australian networks from the 1st of November 2024.

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Australia: "Fuck you, tourists. Your overseas phones don't work here!"

Also, the fact that VoLTE is not truly standardised, and 4G and 5G have no standardised method of calling is just a bad joke.

"Let's have a phone standard without a standard way of phone calls!"
A good summary video.
Oh, forgot to mention:

You can SMS 3 to the number 3498 and it will check your device!
- Apparently the issue is that the SMS check and the AMTA site check are inconclusive. My phone passes all the checks and tests but I have an ALDI sim meaning I'm on the Telstra network but my phone is unlocked from JB Hi-Fi. Afaik there is no way to confirm my phone will not be cut off but it might be because it's a sim on the Telstra network but not in a phone bought from Telstra directly.
  
  What a shitshow.
  
  This is what you get when you have network and operator locked devices. And they drive the "standards" lol
  
  Mmmmm. So does that mean that anyone on any of the resellers plans can't be sure that their phones.will work?
seems like an unideal solution that will stop devices that still have uses (old phone as a media player) from being used.
- Not to mention the E-waste and easily preventable deaths caused by not being able to dial emergency services. This is gross negligence at best and mass murder at worst.
  
  emergency services is the only excuse I can think of to justify preventing phones without vo-lte from connecting.

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