Nearly two dozen devices will stop working on T-Mobile's network next month

[Shawn Knight]

Editor's take: In fairness, T-Mobile probably shouldn’t take too much flak for the decision. Many of these devices are now more than half a decade old or more and have long since stopped receiving regular security updates. If nothing else, perhaps this will prompt some to look for a newer device that is still being actively updated.

T-Mobile customers utilizing older devices could be at risk of losing network connectivity in late January.

An internal T-Mobile document recently obtained by Android Police reveals that 19 devices will be unable to connect to the company’s network starting January 29. Impacted devices include:

• Samsung Galaxy Note 4 (AT&T model)
• Samsung Galaxy Note 4 (Verizon model)
• Samsung Galaxy Note Edge
• HTC Desire 10 Lifestyle
• HTC Desire 650
• Google Nexus 9
• Huawei Mate 8
• Huawei P9
• Mikrotikls SIA_R11e-LTE6
• Netgear Arlo Security Camera System
• OnePlus 1
• Quanta Dragon IR7
• Samsung Galaxy S5 Duos
• Sony Xperia Z3 Compact
• Sony Xperia Z3
• Sony Xperia Z3 Orion
• Sony D6616 Xperia Z3 Orion
• Soyea M02
• ZTE ZMax

Worth highlighting is the fact that the T-Mobile version of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 will not be affected.

The fine print additionally notes that impacted customers started being notified by mail on December 18. An SMS will also go out on December 28, it states.

Android Police originally suspected the changes were linked to VoLTE support changes, but T-Mobile reached out to the publication and said that wasn’t the case.

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[Crinkles]

Thanks Tmob, just what I was hoping for, text telling me my PHONE doesn't work.

 

[DrSuess]

I have an old Note 4 T-Mobile edition glad to hear it will still work, I keep an old phone or two just in case my primary phone breaks. So I can just pull the SIM and put it into another phone.

 

[Revrant]

BZZT! All Sprint devices are dropped instantly and Tmob has no intention of patching VoLTE for Sprint. Dumping legions off the network and locking them out of Tmob unless they pony up with a fat stack of cash for an AT&T-Mobile device.

My carrier's extremely evil deceit is so very Uncarrier, enough for yet another class action, like the one they somehow avoided during the G4 bootloop fiasco.

 

[Audi RS4]

All the phones listed lack Band 12. Only LTE was released to Band 12, and without Band 12, a phone on T-Mobile will appear to have very limited reception, aka, lots of dead zones.