Fallon, knitting, perma-tired on Nostr: What's going on with SIM cards right now? Is it some planned obsolescence thing? Two ...
What's going on with SIM cards right now? Is it some planned obsolescence thing? Two days ago my phone abruptly stopped getting anything other than LTE, and when I called T-Mobile they told me I needed a shiny new eSIM or whatever?
Did they just abruptly shut off SIM cards?
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