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[Auriga]

I saw that today AT&T are shutting down their 3G network in the US today. As best as I can tell, they are the primary carrier for Zero in the US. For those of you without a 2022 FST bike(SR/F and SR/S) and who haven't received a new CCM, it's likely all or most of the remaining remote connect will cease functioning today.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/22/tech/att-3g-network-shutdown/index.html

Zero tells me they have a replacement 4G part, but I have seen no announcements about whether old bikes will be retrofitted or an upgrade covered under warranty. I guess owner's can reach out to their dealers or Zero HQ if they're interested in preserving that functionality.

[Richard230]

Hopefully, cell phone connection to the internet will still work. 

[atomicdog]

Starcom makes the CCM and pays carrier's like AT&T to route their data. The CCM actually uses GPRS (2G), which worked on 3G so it may work on 4G also.

[Auriga]

Unless I'm misreading what GPRS is, it's a method of creating packets for transfer over a cellular network. If the network itself is offline, having packets probably won't matter. I'll be curious to hear from people if it still works tomorrow.

[atomicdog]

GPRS may work on the 4g network which is online. AT&T may also sell/rent the 3G network infrastructure. Just shutting down GPRS would cause a very large disruption to many large companies.  Companies like Starcom would go out of business so I'm sure they already have a plan to keep GPRS working for a while.

[Richard230]

I might add that I don't get cell reception at my home and all of my communication and updates for my Zero go via the cell phone connection to the internet. So I have not had 2, 3 or 4G access and that has never been a problem with updating my 2018 S.

[JaimeC]

I might add that I don't get cell reception at my home and all of my communication and updates for my Zero go via the cell phone connection to the internet. So I have not had 2, 3 or 4G access and that has never been a problem with updating my 2018 S.

The Gen3 bikes have a built-in cellular modem.  I don't know if they can connect to a WAP like a regular cell phone...  Our "primitive" bikes required a bluetooth connection to a cellphone in order to get updates.  There are advantages to not jumping on the "Bleeding Edge" bandwagon sometimes.

[Richard230]

I might add that I don't get cell reception at my home and all of my communication and updates for my Zero go via the cell phone connection to the internet. So I have not had 2, 3 or 4G access and that has never been a problem with updating my 2018 S.

The Gen3 bikes have a built-in cellular modem.  I don't know if they can connect to a WAP like a regular cell phone...  Our "primitive" bikes required a bluetooth connection to a cellphone in order to get updates.  There are advantages to not jumping on the "Bleeding Edge" bandwagon sometimes.

I will agree with that statement. Every time I get on that bandwagon i get in trouble.