It`s curtains for 3G mobile network in the US as Verizon also shuts down service - WION

3G mobile services volition travel to an extremity successful the US aft the past telecommunication supplier Verizon discontinues the aged web connected its customers’ devices this month. Earlier, AT&T unopen disconnected its 3G work successful February 2022, portion T-Mobile ended aged networks successful July. Sprint, which has present merged with T-Mobile, closed its 3G web connected May 31, 2022.

Verizon has sent radical new, LTE-capable phones and a missive explaining everything that volition beryllium happening and by when. 

According to reports successful The Verge, the institution has informed its customers that their “lines volition beryllium suspended starting the time earlier their December billing rhythm begins".

Later, aft the deadline ends, 3G telephone tin lone beryllium utilized to telephone 911 and Verizon lawsuit care. 

Experts accidental that the closure of 4G services volition pb galore network-driven features to go obsolete. 

According to the CTIA, the assemblage representing the wireless communications manufacture successful the US, "fewer than 9 per cent of the US wireless connections are 2G oregon 3G subscriptions." A smartphone launched aft 2014 won't acquisition immoderate issues erstwhile 3G is unopen down. 

Europe is besides readying to upwind down 3G services by the extremity of this decade. According to Fierce Wireless, telecom bearer Orange is apt to signifier retired its 2G and 3G networks successful Europe by 2030. In France, 2G services volition halt by 2025, followed by 3G by the extremity of 2028.

India has already rolled retired 5G services which present represent astir 99 per cent of the full information postulation consumed crossed the country. According to Nokia’s Mobile Broadband India Traffic Index report, the availability of debased outgo 4G phones led radical to upgrade to 4G devices. 

(With inputs from agencies)

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