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Trimble R12 and 3G shutoff
I bought a Trimble R12 with TSC3 new in late 2020 paying the premium on Trimble gear, expecting the equipment to be future proof, but now I am being told that with the 3G shut off here neither the modem in the R12 or the TSC3 are going to be if any use. This is very frustrating. My understanding is that the 3G shutoff has been on the cards since 2019. WTF Trimble why was this gear sold knowing the modems would be obsolete very soon!!
As a small business I would need to be getting 5-8 years at least out of the equipment. What is everyone else doing to get around this? At the moment I have the sim in the receiver and I am able to swap the receiver between two data collectors with an employee, the other data collector being a second TSC3 bought new in 2021. I would like to operate in a similar way but it would cost 10k to get 2 new TSC5’s and that’s with a “discount” from the dealer who sold these knowing they would be obsolete in 3-4 years. Even that would require swapping the sim out each time creating a slower workflow.
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