The device continued working until December 1996, when it was switched off and scrapped.
The device continued to be used until the regiment amalgamated in 1958.
The device will continue to be sold through retail stores, and other channel partners.
What analysts have said is that the devices will continue to pull these networks, and promote competition among them.
In such a case, the devices would continue to resend the data packets until they make it through.
However, no devices have continued to operate to the present.
The device needing service would continue to assert its bus request.
This ruling, however, affects only Germany; and the device continues to be available for sale within the country.
The device is self-regulating, and should continue to work without adjustment or repair for many years.
Nothing seems to have come of this, and the unofficial device continued in use.