I think the biggest thing with this is reliability. I've got a half a dozen cellular radios lying around my house (cellphones) of which exactly one is functional. Even if I paid for a new sim for the others... I'm not sure some of them could work at all with current transmitters, even if the hardware was functional.
I've got an AM/FM radio that's 20-30 years old and it still works. At some point it would be nice if we could get back to vendor-agnostic wireless protocols that aren't obsolete every 10 years. Until we have such a thing deprecating AM seems premature.
I've got an AM/FM radio that's 20-30 years old and it still works. At some point it would be nice if we could get back to vendor-agnostic wireless protocols that aren't obsolete every 10 years. Until we have such a thing deprecating AM seems premature.