Digi just sent this sms to my phones this morning.

Frustrated. At this time no money to buy another 4G phone, and they don’t want to turn on volte for ROG Phone 3.

This is my first time seeing this kind of SMS... Where are you located? Which city and state?

Amazing. How do they know your area and plus your number? I'm guessing via your registered address.

Well happens to any telco. Switching to 4G means revenue for them.
If they don't wanna turn on, give them the bird and port out to whichever telco which supports your ROG.

I also received the same SMS from Digi but I can still switch to 3G just fine so…idk

Location : Alor Setar, Kedah

They should postpone 3G sunset by 1Q of 2022 during pandemic not many can afford buy new 4G smartphones !!! Hope Govt should look at it. Since Jendela has been enforced Maxis has been shit. Digi better in terms of speeds and coverage

Well… here’s an update

So, Digi also want to learn like government? Likes to U-turn? 🤔

I wonder, do they charge for the 4G compatible sim card replacement?

If so, how much, and will it be supporting 5G as well?

Will be a hassle to get it replaced again sometime in the future.

Not sure whether telcos would charge users for changing from user's few-decade-old SIM card to a newer 4G-supported SIM, but I guess probably it is free of charge...

The newer SIM should be able to support 5G as well.

Malaysia’s 3G shutdown has a major hurdle and it has nothing to do with 4G device or coverage
https://soyacincau.com/2021/07/29/opensigna...onnected-to-4g/

just like my place, the telcos advertised my area under LTE-A, by worst LTE only. But in reality I am connected to 80% of 3G and the rest at 4G. I am only about 1.2km from the cell tower.

I'm one of the user use 3G only, even map show got 4G coverage,
I get signal strength -105 to -115dBm, cause battery drain very fast,
but 3G full bar
Umobile
Need start searching what telco i should port

I recall in the past where Pre-3G SIM can only work on basic phones and the same SIM will not work in 3G and 4G phones... this was in 2013.

Then when 4G LTE came, some have to upgrade the SIM again because the SIM had limited KB for something ?

I think it is safe to say if your current SIM does not have a triple SIM cut outs or have no nano SIM option, then it is not fully 4G LTE compatible ?

Actually u guys need better phone, don’t blame telco.

Really hope that's the case though.

Furthermore, need to cross district sumore to go to the telco office, which is currently not feasible.

Telcos can ship the SIM card to your doorstep

Or perhaps all telco could share one single 2G network for users to fallback. At least this approach is better than allocating a small piece of spectrum for each telco to maintain 2G network.

Nope.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket
Only left Maxis and Celcom Digi Bhd 2G operator.

Technically not possible and too costly to to do :-)

2G may be used for voice only later if there is no 4G coverage then fallback to 2G.
can consider use a small pieces of low band frequency for 2G to cover the area that 4G cannot cover.

So do you say no to the single consortium to manage the 5G network too?