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Smarty FORCED FIRMWARE UPGRADE
This is nothing to do with SMARTY, SMARTY didn’t force any firmware update to your ZTE MC801A.
WelshPaul It does so, the Three network doesn’t differentiate between Three & Smarty as a MVNO (?? 🤪) therefor Three will force a router update through either (which it shouldn’t) Three official support has confirmed this but said you have to raise the matter with Smarty.
A absolute fail by Smarty to not disable automatically updating Three devices, it legally isn’t authorised to do such to a consumers non Smarty devices.
I guess SMARTY don't sell handsets and mobile broadband devices in order to reduce their support costs.
This might preclude SMARTY from stopping firmware updates to devices, originally locked to Three UK's network. Could this firmware update have been intended to fix critical security flaws in the given device's firmware?
Where did you get the router? It was never sold in the UK with generic ZTE firmware, it was only ever supplied by Three and Vodafone (as far as I remember) and came with network branded firmware. Yea I know, you can purchase said router on the likes of eBay or Amazon, but such units have modified firmware and were original networked locked/supplied devices.
