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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Paul Karp

The demise of daily letters, 3G and cash – are governments leaving us old (and young) fogeys behind?

Person holding old-style flip phone up to take photo
More than a million mobile phones could be cut off from calling triple zero due to the planned shutdown of the 3G network. Photograph: Martin Argles/The Guardian

For many years I enjoyed free-to-air television perfectly well in standard definition, with no fear of missing out on shiny high definition.

Then one day they turned the SD off.

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