🚗 Automotive 1d ago · Andrew P. Collins

It’s Probably Time To Start Worrying About the 4G LTE Shutdown Bricking Cars

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It’s Probably Time To Start Worrying About the 4G LTE Shutdown Bricking Cars
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There are about 500 million connected cars on the road around the world right now, and that number is expected to more than double by 2035. Once we get to the next decade, a huge chunk of them will be on borrowed time, because carriers are expected to start decommissioning 4G LTE networks as early as 2030.



A recent study tracking the pervasiveness of connected cars caught our eye and made us think of the 2022 3G shutdown that killed connected features for millions of cars. We’ll be goin

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