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Australia To Block Internationally Purchased 4G/5G Phones As Part of 3G Shutdown - Starting 1st Nov (www.youtube.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh, forgot to mention:

You can SMS 3 to the number 3498 and it will check your device!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Mmmmm. So does that mean that anyone on any of the resellers plans can't be sure that their phones.will work?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

This is what I would really like to know. My reply to your comment is also a bit of an appeal for someone to correct me and let me and others in the same boat know we're all good if say for example our phones pass the various checks and tests. Right now if you're on an unlocked phone on the Telstra network I can't say and I'm kind of expecting to find out come November (unless of course there is a delay due to the petition or other).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

What a shitshow.

This is what you get when you have network and operator locked devices. And they drive the "standards" lol