Comments on: U.S. Hangs Up On Analog Cell Service http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/us-hangs-up-on-analog-cell-service/ Digital Trends is your home for technology news, CE product reviews, mobile app reviews and daily videos. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:07:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Scared Poet http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/us-hangs-up-on-analog-cell-service/#comment-55786 Scared Poet Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:43:40 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com#comment-55786 It should be pointed out that the FCC is not *madnating* that analog service be shut off. Rather, today was the "sunset date" on an old FCC requirement that cell carriers who once offered analog service continue to offer it. The FCC is not ORDERING them to shut it off, they are simply no longer requiring them to keep analog service running, and carriers can leave it on or turn it off as they see fit.<br /> <br /> Obviously carriers like AT&T and Verizon, who are consistently hungry for any scrap of bandwidth they can get, are surely going to take advantage of this and shut analog down. But rural carriers in the boondocks will probably keep analog up and running for some time yet.<br /> <br /> <br /> It should be pointed out that the FCC is not *madnating* that analog service be shut off. Rather, today was the “sunset date” on an old FCC requirement that cell carriers who once offered analog service continue to offer it. The FCC is not ORDERING them to shut it off, they are simply no longer requiring them to keep analog service running, and carriers can leave it on or turn it off as they see fit.

Obviously carriers like AT&T and Verizon, who are consistently hungry for any scrap of bandwidth they can get, are surely going to take advantage of this and shut analog down. But rural carriers in the boondocks will probably keep analog up and running for some time yet.

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