Re: Classic BlackBerry phones will stop working January 4 [telecom]

From	"Marco Moock" <mo01@posteo.de>
Newsgroups	comp.dcom.telecom
Subject	Re: Classic BlackBerry phones will stop working January 4 [telecom]
Date	2022-01-03 20:45 +0100
Organization	The Telecom Digest
Message-ID	<20220103204547.1959664c@ryz> (permalink)
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Am Sonntag, 02. Januar 2022, um 18:06:31 Uhr schrieb Sean Murphy:

> Starting Tuesday, January 4, the company will stop running support for
> its classic devices running BlackBerry 10, 7.1 OS and earlier. This
> means all of its older devices not running on Android software will no
> longer be able to use data, send text messages, access the internet or
> make calls, even to 911.

It is interesting that the devices stop working when the support ends.
Other Android devices don't have that "feature".

(interim moderator's note: Blackberry phones receive some services from 
Blackberry, and those were turned off. There has been some discussion on 
crackberry.com about how to circumvent this, but it's not trivial. 
Blackberry-branded Android phones still work. As of this morning my old 
Blackberry Classic, with no SIM card, still works for Wi-Fi access.)

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Classic BlackBerry phones will stop working January 4 [telecom] Sean Murphy <murphy.s@telecomdigest.net> - 2022-01-02 18:06 +0000
  Re: Classic BlackBerry phones will stop working January 4 [telecom] "Michael Trew" <michael.trew@att.net> - 2022-01-03 11:45 -0500
  Re: Classic BlackBerry phones will stop working January 4 [telecom] "Marco Moock" <mo01@posteo.de> - 2022-01-03 20:45 +0100

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