Has ping / tracert been blocked on 5g network?

I hope more people realized there is an issue, find this post, sign in and post. This has to get to 40 pages in my mind before something happens to make this newsworthy.

Here’s my perspective, I’ve called in on several issues on different products recently, writing to a half dozen companies as a heads up that there are problems and neither issue has been resolved or hit the media.

1. Apple Airplay2 functionality is busted in iOS/iPadOS 16 on non-Apple devices. It may, or may not, have to do something with Apple Home App and Matter integration standards. I can find a lot more articles on issues for this topic right now on Reddit and other sites but none appear to connect the dots between products - they are focused on one manufacturer's product, when the issue is Apple AND the manufacturer. From Sonos to Belkin, to receiver manufacturers like Yamaha and Onkyo this is big. This specific issue has been known since July when beta testers were testing the new iOS software and reported it. Airplay2 still works correctly in Mac OS - Ventura. Go to Belkin.com and look up their Soundform Connect and that device's questions page has customers giving it bad reviews because of the issue blaming Belkin for selling the device that doesn't work. Belkin's response has been to please reach out to a special email address to get support. Airplay2 worked, pre iOS 16, then the issues started (the changes in the Home App's code were being implemented due to upcoming Matter integration). While I am significantly impacted having multiple zones in my home using receivers to send AirPlay information to from my phones or iPads, most people probably just use Apple TVs and Apple Home Pod minis and don't experience the issue, since Apple's own devices don't have the issue.
2. Amazon has been selling a device for at least two years where each device's ethernet port of that product is hard coded with the same MAC address making them useless on ethernet if you have more than two devices - you can use over WI-FI... There are threads from the US and India on it, but none are more than four pages long. There are now reviews on Amazon saying the issue, I put a review one out there, it was reviewed by Amazon, but the group that received my call, the group that reviewed my review are not the development team and that's who needs to see it OR an executive of the company. There are several options to fix, including spoofing a MAC address in the device firmware but it has gone no where. Too niche of an issue and not newsworthy. These are higher end products, sold by Amazon, and since WI-FI works for most that's the resolution from support.

This issue is too new, and our situation is a little more unique than we may like to admit. It impacts us, and some of us more than others, but the average user probably just thinks it is the "the tower is under construction". Here's the headlines I have seen recently that are newsworthy to T-Mobile

1. everyone loves T-Mobile; https://www.tmonews.com/2022/10/t-mobile-earns-highest-score-in-j-d-power-2022-us-business-wireless-satisfaction-study/
2. we could be facing an uphill battle - I’ve only seen this report on one site, yet it seems like this is a bigger concern overall, to me. https://thedesk.net/2022/08/t-mobile-home-internet-problems-tower-upgrades/