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Comment by gruez

19 hours ago

>And if you have a modern enough SIM+phone combo, it won’t even display the 2g network as an available network, nor 3G on my device.

Source? It might just be that your carrier retired its 2g/3g network, not that the phone/sim refuses 2g/3g connections. If some cell tower popped up claiming to 2g/3g, your phone still might happily connect.

source = Rogers SIM in me phone

my Telus/Bell SIM shows the 3G network tho

  • Unfortunately, I think there's no way for a SIM card to indicate to the phone that it would like it to please never connect to any 2G (or any non-mutually-authenticated) network.

    Absent that, maybe this happens via a carrier profile (or equivalent mechanism)?

    • Ah, so the attack might depend on whether your phone is set to allow roaming or not. Maybe.

      But I only have an option for data roaming on/off, not roaming entirely.

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