[NTLK] Newton 2100 and Nokia Phone Card 2.0

[Luke Seabrook]

I wouldn't worry, there’s some places without 3G - they won’t be shutting down a service that a significant proportion of the country relies on. The Government is getting tighter on minimum coverage for both mobile carriers and landline/fibre/etc. I wouldn’t worry about 2G shutdown in the UK for now, though it is, what, 20 years old roughly.

Personally I think I may try and move to a SatPhone + Serial port route, they’re getting cheaper but i wouldn’t be able to go to Russia or North Korea without some difficulty.

Anyway if we [the UK] do get rid of 2G we’ll get a lot of notice, remember the ‘Big Switch’ Analogue TV shutdown (it still annoys me) but there was tons of warning and time to find alternate solutions.

Luke Seabrook

> On 2 Mar 2016, at 9:44 pm, David Arnold <davida at pobox.com> wrote:
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> The biggest issue with these devices is the impending shutdown of the 2G GSM networks.
> 
> In Australia:
> 	Telstra	1 Dec 2016
> 	Optus	1 Apr 2017
> 
> In USA
> 	AT&T	1 Jan 2017
> 	Verizon	2021 (CDMA)
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> In Singapore
> 	M1	1 Apr 2017
> 	Starhub	1 Apr 2017
> 	Sintel	1 Apr 2017
> 
> The UK sounds like it might be somewhat later; no idea about other countries/regions.
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> d
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>> On 3 Mar 2016, at 08:15, Luke Seabrook <lseabrook333 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Just to note I don’t have one of these cards, I have a ‘Vodafone Mobile Connect Card’ which is just a branded Option Globetrotter. It was locked to Vodafone so thats why I use their SIMs. I still can’t get it to work entirely but I got onto Arcade BBS on my eMate and make phone calls! It’s good to look at the little successes than think about the big failure of not being able to use GPRS or PPP Dial Up.
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>> Luke Seabrook
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>>> On 2 Mar 2016, at 8:42 pm, Piotrowski Paweł (Newton) <newton at indigi.co.uk> wrote:
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>>> Hi Guys!
>>> 
>>> I just bought Nokia Phone Card 2.0. I know that this card can work with Newton, but I completely don’t know how to setup it (I have Nokia Phone Card 2.0.pkg on Newton) and what kind of GSM card/provider I need to start using it ;)
>>> 
>>> Anyone know which Mobile network in UK can deliver me proper SIM card? And how to setup this card to use for internet access and sending SMS or something? ;)
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>>> 
>>> Best regards,
>>> Pawel Piotrowski
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