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3G has come and gone, but 2G lingers. Why?

You may sometimes forget that your smartphone is a phone. That’s not because you don’t use it as a phone, but because you take the service for granted. Operators don’t take it for granted. There is a saying in the industry: “Data sells, but voice pays.” Plus, a mobile operator is usually bound by legal mandates, like emergency call support and lawful intercept, that assume that basic telephone service works. Operators have strong commercial and regulatory motives to provide basic telephone service. And it turns out that basic telephone service is not a solved problem in the post-3G world. I already wrote a whole other post on that, but here is the TL;DR:

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