▲ 799 ▼ Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand” (www.yahoo.com) submitted 4 months ago by NM_Gringo@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 260 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago (1 child) They were checking against a whitelist of IMEIs to force people to migrate to 5G phones. While my new phone was 5G, it was acquired internationally and thus not on the whitelist. So as soon as it got on the network, the line got terminated. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment load more comments (1 reply)
[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago (1 child) They were checking against a whitelist of IMEIs to force people to migrate to 5G phones. While my new phone was 5G, it was acquired internationally and thus not on the whitelist. So as soon as it got on the network, the line got terminated. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment load more comments (1 reply)