Thank you for taking the lead on this debacle.
I have to think the move to shut down 3G didn't just happen. Dodge should have planned ahead and worked to come up with a better solution than a wonky dongle that doesn't provide all of the features our cars came with. I shouldn't suffer because of their greed and/or poor planning.
The 3G shutdown was announced in 2019.
Fair enough. Still ... Dodge/Uconnect/T-Mobile-Sprint have had 2 years to come up with a better solution than a wonky dongle.
You are most welcome! I hope that we can get some positive results.
Perhaps so, but FCA at the time offered NO solutions to updating the hardware and/or software in the vehicles affected. What's next? Those who have purchased a 2018+ will have the same issue when 4G goes to 5G and so on? If Stellantis retains the current pattern, every 3 or 4 years a customer will lose part of the radio display functions in their vehicle. My argument with this issue is not so much with the 3G shutdown, but that Stellantis has offered nothing but a dongle, which = dingleberry.
"Dodge/Uconnect/T-Mobile-Sprint have had 2 years to come up with a better solution than a wonky dongle, " exactly my point!
The wonky dongle is all you’re ever going to get and, frankly, they shouldn’t have even bothered. What do you think is going to happen to every 3G device (phone, tablet, mobile hotspot, etc.) next year? Technology comes and goes. Where’s the support for Windows 95? Verizon CDMA phones? Sonos speakers? And on and on. There is none, it’s obsolete technology.
AT&T offered me a free phone to replace the old 3G flip phone on my account that my mom had been using. It became a moot point when she passed away in June ... at 100 years!! But I appreciated the offer.
Civil litigation usually gets 40% for the attorneys and we'd be lucky to get $1.00. If a judge agrees to certify the claim, I'm going to ask that the display/radio head be replaced. The parts cost would be less expensive than to ask for the $1500.00 - $1800.00 for the customer to replace it at retail price.
Well stated! Retaining brand satisfaction goes a long way with a manufacturer, if nothing more than to retain reputation. Losing their brand reputation will lose sales, so it's more than only cost at stake for them.
I just found out that our largest carrier in Canada Rogers started to remove their 2G and 3G networks on June 17th this year. holy.
Or cut your service until the next billing cycle.
That would not be an Unlimited plan.
