Analog Cellular Networks to be Decommissioned in Feb ’08
As reported by CNN:
United States – The FCC voted in 2002
to allow cell phone carriers to begin allowing their
analog networks to go offline beginning February
18, 2008. As this date is fast approaching, as
many as 500,000 OnStar users will no longer
have access to emergency services.
It is believed as many as one million
cell phone users will be shut out, as will about
400,000 wireless home security systems.
Many people are also completely unaware
this shutdown is coming.This is just one example of progress
and obsolescence. Next on the horizon is
the advent and takeover of high definition video.
Per FCC directives, all TV stations in the US will
be required to broadcast in HD and analog will
be left by the wayside.
Today I was ticked off that nobody makes the Flash and other plug-ins for Windows 98 that the web browser needs to play kiddie games and other media. A parent can’t even give their kids a hand-me-down computer anymore.
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