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Originally Posted by nonsuch View Post
I was refering to the opposite: It is possible to make phone calls without any data connection, i.e. without LTE, without 2/3/4/5G.

People seem to have lost that knowledge; I'll say it just one more time:
There's technology for mobile calls and SMS, usually called GSM, and then there's all the rest, call it mobile broadband, internet, data, whatever.
Every smart phone ever built (*) has had (and still has) at least those two technologies side by side.

(*) assuming part of the definition of "smartphone" is "internet capable". And if someone brings up WAP now I'm going to scream...
The "traditional" GSM voice call which is called circuit switched connection to differentiate from the packed switched connection of the "data call" still needs the 2G or 3G cell to work.
If an operator runs down the 2G/3G network and allocates the cell sites to LTE or 5G then you lost this capability.
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