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Originally Posted by x5j83jn
The default responses of BMW representatives regarding hardware and software solutions for 3G sunset are fundamentally wrong, since BMW does offer compatible 4G telematics units for most of impacted vehicles.
Replacing the 3G telematics unit by a compatible 4G telematics unit is possible and executed with success in US. See this post
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My previous U.S. F31 car had 3G. It was incompatible with the 4G telematics unit.
I discovered all of this when I went to turn on the online services that I had allowed to lapse during the COVID lockdown. (I put only a few hundred miles on my car in 2020.)
I was annoyed, needless to say.
My current car has 4G. I hope that history does not repeat itself when 4G goes the way of the dodo. BMW will be derelict if current cars don’t have some sort of upgrade path.