Mastodawn

Jul 16, 2025

@LaF0rge @stman @kDelta @Sempf obviously that's why it was discontinued for a time in #Germany, as it was considered as obsolete as #HSCSD is in light of faster standards that - even without guaranteed bandwith - will yield higher throughput.

Obviously #CellBroadcast will necessitate a constant bandwith allocation for functionality as it's design is based upon repeating a message until it's transmissiom being removed.

Still, even in contended #spectrum this is manageable, espechally since most #MNOs only maintain vestigal #2G or #3G infrastructure solely for #emergency coverage and reliability, as most phones will call emergency services over 2G and 3G and not via #VoLTE.

To add insult to injury, most BSCs will downgrade to 2G-only service by default in case of power loss to maximize UPS range and in the case of #NewZealand even switch off all services but #SMS & #EmergencyServicesCalling to enshure people in need can get their calls out, as the population is instructed to use SMS for person-to-person communication (as SMS is a low-priority, non-realtime service using excess bandwith and thus not compete with calling like #EDGE and #CSD would.

Kevin Karhan :verified: (@[email protected])

@[email protected] well, there were *some commercial services* that used #CellBroadcast but for the most part it's *best feature* is the effective mass alerting of people in an area without needing them to *install yet another app* or *signup to yet another service*... - The [temporary] shutdown of #CellBroadcast caused hundreds of avoidable deaths [in Germany alone.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_European_floods#Germany) @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

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Kevin Karhan

Sep 24, 2024

@goetz @fluepke AFAICT, all #MNOs and #MVNOs in #Germany violate #RFC6598 by using #RFC1918 address space ( 10.0.0.0/8) bricking #VPNs that use the same address range instead of using the #CGNAT address space ( 100.64.0.0/10 ).

Sadly, @BNetzA doesn't really care to enforce anything...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_shared_address_space
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1918
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6598

Carrier-grade NAT - Wikipedia

Kevin Karhan

Apr 3, 2024

@talviunelias the question is not what required #Tor but what did not !

If you're stuck on #EDGEland #2G speeds you need @torproject as #PerformanceProxy because #MNOs amd #MVNOs in #Germany do #throttling not by negotiating a lower #bandwith or lower #PacketRate, but by just #dropping packets.

And that fucks up everything, sith data speeds beingbeffectively on-par with #Iridium!

OFC they did that to force people to pay more for overpriced data packages...

I just said "Fuck you!" and when I didn't #Browse purposefully started #BitTorrent|ing a shitload of #FLOSS and espechally #Linux distros because with forced disconnects and absurdly low speeds, even #DownloadManagers like #jDownloader didn't work amd I needed to up date my shit anyway...

IoT for All May 4, 2023

Referenced link: https://www.iotforall.com/press-releases/major-transition-in-iot-connectivity-management-platforms
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Originally posted by IoT For All / @iotforall: http://nitter.platypush.tech/iotforall/status/1654191663965782017#m

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