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2G Network Sunset: What it Means and How it Affects You

March 1, 2016

To begin, let’s get some perspective on the topic. If you are using a GPS device to track assets for repossession and recovery, your device likely uses cellular technology. That is, it operates in a similar way to a cell phone, communicating over a wireless network. Consequently, changes made by wireless carriers can and will aect your GPS devices – and there are some important changes coming.GPS tracking devices are considered “machine-to-machine” or M2M devices. That means one machine (the GPS device) is communicating with another machine (computer servers hosting a website).

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2G Network Sunset: What it Means and How it Affects You