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Old Sep 10, 2025 | 12:38 PM
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MBRACE shutting down 1/2026
Just received an email that mbrace is shutting down end of the year. Anybody else received this email?
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Yep. Surprised as I figure it's not a tech issue - such as 3G, but more of a money loser situation.
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It's been posted here a few times already. mBrace has been end of life since it was replaced with Mercedes me connect for most MY2019 models onwards, so this was just a matter of time. It's partly technical, because most vehicles that were still on mBrace also only had 3G radios, so they lost the services already a while back when the 3G network was shut down. The remaining vehicles that are still on mBrace sort of fell in a crack. They got LTE radios, but the Mercedes me connect platform wasn't quite ready yet, for example the W213 up to MY2018.
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Guess my concern was how to replace the sos service that gets impacted in case it was ever needed.
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Guess my concern was how to replace the sos service that gets impacted in case it was ever needed.
Take a look at the 3G sunset FAQ. Verizon offers an OBD dongle called "Hum" that offers some of the same services.

https://www.mbusa.com/en/owners/3g-network-sunset
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Take a look at the 3G sunset FAQ. Verizon offers an OBD dongle called "Hum" that offers some of the same services.

https://www.mbusa.com/en/owners/3g-network-sunset
Don't like the idea of something constantly plugged in the OBD port though.
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