[kwlug-disc] OT: CDMA network shutdown?

[John Driezen]

I use a Virgin Mobile cell phone.  I was notified in January that my 
cell phone would no longer work after April 30, 2019 because the CDMA 
network was disappearing.  Now when I turn on my old LG flip phone all I 
get is searching for network.  The time doesn't even show up.  I ended 
up buying a $200 Samsung smartphone because the free phone replacement 
Virgin Mobile offered is a basic cell phone that didn't even store a 
contact list.

John Driezen

jdriezen at sympatico.ca

On 2019-07-21 1:29 p.m., Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> It looks like the CDMA network for Bell is finally dead? I used to use
> CDMA phones that would connect to the network long enough to get
> network time and then go into airplane mode. Now (as of Thursday?)
> that stopped working.
>
> Has anybody else experienced this?
> It looks as if the transition was on April 30:
> https://support.bell.ca/Mobility/Smartphones_and_mobile_internet/CDMA_EVDO_network_change
>
> but I feel this can't be right, because I have been using time on my
> CDMA phone up to this week. Maybe I never accessed the network between
> the end of April and now?
>
> Unfortunately I do not see any options on these phones to set the time
> manually, which is really all I want. I wonder how difficult it would
> be to build my own Stingray box that would do nothing but feed the
> time to a phone?
>
> - Paul
>