As discussed in our previous article, Qualityvend has made significant progress in avoiding the 3G network shutdown. Although some of our card readers are still using the 3G network, we have put in a lot of effort to acquire enough new units. This will not only satisfy our existing customers but also attract new ones.
Is your current vending machine provider still using a 3G unit for your favorite 3:00 pm pick-me-up?
News Limited’s Frank Chung has provided further details from our interview with 2GB’s Ben Fordham last week.
Aussies are being warned of looming chaos in just a few weeks when millions of devices including phones and vending machines suddenly stop working.
Below is a snippet from Franks article.
It’s like Y2K bug, but for real this time — and it could wipe out everything from vending machines and shopping centre children’s rides to laundromats, parking stations, security cameras and EFTPOS terminals.
Those old enough will remember the hysteria in the lead-up to the turn of the millennium about the impending technological calamity.
The fear was that as the number buried in the code of innumerable computer systems around the world ticked over from “99” to “00”
That never happened, but in just over two months, a large number of Australian consumers and businesses are facing their own mini-Y2Ks, many without even knowing it.
On August 31, Telstra and Optus will both shut off their ageing 3G mobile networks, and businesses are being warned “not to be a 3G casualty”.