3G Could End This Year. For People Who Rely on Basic Phones, That’s a Big Problem.

Some rural residents, religious communities, and people who just like simple phones are still reliant on the vanishing network

Hannah Frishberg
OneZero
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8 min readFeb 2, 2021

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Mia Lipsit in Manhattan, New York, on January 10, 2021. Photos: Yael Malka for OneZero

Over the years, Mia Lipsit has innovated a number of tech workarounds to avoid buying a smartphone: She’s hacked…

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Hannah Frishberg
OneZero
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Features reporter & 4th generation Brooklynite