“From 2025 You will be informed by SMS messages. “Mobile communication will be blocked in Lithuania,” the portal announced publication title.
However, the text itself hints at blocking very slickly.
In fact, the text is not the author’s work of the portal’s journalists, but distributed by the company “Bitė Lietuva”. press release.
It saysthat after the resolution of the Seimas, from 2025 from the beginning, all communication providers providing prepaid services will be required to register customers and the new SIM cards they purchase.
This is to combat remote fraud. The requirement to register prepaid SIM cards will only apply to new customers. Customers using the services until now will be able to use the services without changes.
So, no mobile blocking was even mentioned.
Seeking to attract more “clicks”
Such a phenomenon, when the title clearly does not correspond to the content of the publication, is called header bait (English clickbait).
Headlines are usually aimed at increasing the popularity of a web page and the revenue from online advertising.
When writing misleading headlines, it is typical to provide incomplete or tendentious information, to use connotative words – this is how readers’ curiosity is aroused and they provoke a click on the headline.
You may have difficulty making calls
From 2025 March 1 In Lithuania, it is planned to abandon the prefix 8 at the beginning of telephone numbers. Instead of this number, Lithuanian numbers will have to use 0 or the country code +370.
Before residents and businesses have time to change the numbers initially with the number 8 in address books, websites and elsewhere, these numbers will from 2025. will no longer work in March.
This change is implemented due to systemic changes in the network, in order to harmonize the numbering used in Lithuania with the numbering used in the world.
Communications Regulatory Authority (RCT) warns to take care change the numbers in advance – those who are already using the +370 code assigned to Lithuania, keeping contact numbers in their notebooks, will not feel the changes at all.
Mobile network operators describes various methods how to change many contacts on your phone at the same time, and some even offer to provide this service for free not only to customers of their network.
“8 is scheduled to be decommissioned on March 1, 2025. True, for some time, until December 1, users will receive notifications that such a phone number is invalid and needs to be corrected. Later, this notification function will also be disabled,” explained RRT Council member Kristina Mikoliūnienė.
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It prompts you to change the SIM card
Also, the outdated 3G connection will be disconnected in Lithuania by the end of next year.
When the 3G connection shutdown begins, residents are advised to check whether they should upgrade their equipment, for example, to purchase a 4G, 5G supporting mobile phone that also has the VoLTE function.
But the most important thing, according to experts, is to make sure that your SIM card is new enough, and if it is strangely old, to replace it with a new one.
SIM cards for 2G and 3G were sold until about 2010, then with the advent of next-generation communication, the SIM changed as well.
Only a small part of the population uses 3G voice and Internet data transmission technology. Therefore, the majority of people will not even notice that the 3G connection is turned off.
T.Biliūnos/BNS photo/Mobile device
15min verdict: manipulation. A misleading headline aims to attract as many readers as possible.
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Source: www.15min.lt
