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faq:2g-3g-shutdown [2020/12/16 11:08] – [Current Products] juraschek | faq:2g-3g-shutdown [2020/12/17 12:58] (current) – [Modem Specific Limitations] juraschek | ||
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- | During the Roll-Out of the new cellular technologies like 4G (LTE Long Term Evolution) and 5G (NR New Radio) old technologies will be shutdown | + | During the roll-out of the new cellular technologies like 4G (LTE - Long Term Evolution) and 5G (NR - New Radio) old technologies will be discontinued |
- | Popular Examples are: | + | * [[https:// |
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- | All Netmodule Routers are supporting at least two cellular technologies. | + | All Netmodule Routers are supporting at least two cellular technologies. Therefore, in most cases a replacement is not needed. |
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- | Therefore in most cases a replacement is not needed. | + | |
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- | In Some Cases a configuration change will be needed. | + | |
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- | <WRAP center round important 85%> | + | As 2G and 3G supports Voice Calls and SMS this function will be still available if only one of these technologies will be shut down. So far no operator has announced |
- | On some very old legacy Products a replacement is needed for some operators due to band restrictions | + | |
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- | We also highly recomment you upgrade your legacy Router to a state-of-the art Product | ||
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- | ====== Configuration | + | |
In the most cases the WWAN interface are used in automatic mode. | In the most cases the WWAN interface are used in automatic mode. | ||
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Sometimes the customer is forcing a specific service type (e.g. 2G-Only, 3G-Only, 2G/3G-Only) based on various reasons. | Sometimes the customer is forcing a specific service type (e.g. 2G-Only, 3G-Only, 2G/3G-Only) based on various reasons. | ||
- | You need to make sure this setting is matching with your future operator support, or enable the automatic mode. | + | You need to make sure this setting is matching with your future operator support or enable the automatic mode. |
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- | ====== Current Products | + | ==== Current Products |
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- | All active Products are equipped with LTE Modems that support multiple Service Types. | + | |
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- | Some product Variants are sold with LTE-Advanced Modems (Order Code Ld/Ld/Lb) which not support 2G anymore. Here you will lose the fallback Option into 3G in Germany in the Future. | + | |
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- | All other LTE Products are supporting 2G and 3G Fallback and therefore will not lose Connectivity. | + | |
+ | All active products are equipped with LTE Modems that support multiple service types. | ||
+ | Product variants with LTE-Advanced modems (Order Code Ld/Ld/Lb, 4G/3G only) will lose data fallback if the provider like Telekom discontinues the 3G/UMTS network. | ||
+ | All other LTE products are supporting 2G and 3G fallback and therefore will not lose connectivity. | ||
- | ====== Legacy Products | + | ==== Legacy Products ==== |
- | Our [[documentation: | + | Our [[documentation: |
- | ===== Modem Specific Limitations | + | ==== Modem Specific Limitations ==== |
- | Some of our legacy | + | Some of our legacy |
- | The other Option Wireless | + | Other Option Wireless |
- | You can check for the Modemtype used either | + | The modem type is shown in the [[https:// |