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      05-26-2025, 05:59 AM   #7
jamesinaz
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Originally Posted by G30M View Post
in some countries the connected drive stopped working after telcos shutdown 3G bands, in such cars that only had a 3G cellular connection. cars with 4G connections would still work.

i presume your car has 4G. 4G bands have changed over time.

it's possible your area had some cellular upgrades to a different band that your car cellular hardware is unable to connect to. (eg if you have a 6 year old iphone it won't work properly because it does not have certain bands of 4G for example. think of these bands as radio stations. except that your mobile phone doesn't have all these stations, it needs a specific hardware support for each station, or 4G band)

or i could be down the wrong hole and it's something else.
Don't know. Don't think there has been a recent change. The car THINKS it is online as far as I can tell and mybmw thinks it is still covered for concierge service features until the end of June. Might be that MYBMW is wrong and the actual purchase date of May 17 it shut off. But 4 years seems an odd period. I'd have thought the 3 years would have been it.

Going to call BMW next week and see if they can respond.
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