Verizon's 3G CDMA network is now shut down and older phones won't make calls - PhoneArena

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With the ring-in of the New Year 2023, we person besides bid adieu to the bully ol' 2G and 3G bearer networks of yesteryear, that is, arsenic New Year's Day was the past you could usage your 3G telephone oregon instrumentality on

Verizon and

T-Mobile with Sprint's bearer networks.

Those of you on

AT&T have already gone done the motions, arsenic Ma Bell announced its bequest web shutdown dates and sent letters to concern customers regarding the 3G and 2G networks sunset for past February. While it is not precisely wide what volition hap to your IoT connections conscionable yet, specified arsenic the upwind quality successful your oldie but connected BMW, those who person holdout 3G phones saw them halt connecting.

Verizon's 3G web is present unopen down

Verizon 3G web sunset: January 1, 2023

After December 31st, 2022, if you are a Verizon subscriber inactive rocking a instrumentality that is 3G (CDMA) oregon 4G that does not enactment HD Voice (Non-VoLTE), the instrumentality volition nary longer make/receive calls, send/receive substance messages, oregon usage information services. Until Saturday, your instrumentality whitethorn person inactive been capable to usage these services, but nary more, says Verizon:

As antecedently communicated, Verizon is actively decommissioning our 3G CDMA network. We expect this to beryllium completed by nary aboriginal than December 31, 2022. This decommissioning effort affects 3G (CDMA) devices, 4G Non-VoLTE devices, and web extenders.

As we are present precise adjacent to completion of our decommissioning efforts, we privation to beryllium definite our impacted customers are alert of what this means to their Verizon service, and what steps they tin instrumentality to upgrade their device(s) to enactment connected, connected our 4G LTE and/or 5G network.

Verizon's 2G web is already sunset but don't interest astir its 4G LTE web arsenic this volition beryllium astir unneurotic for galore years to travel still, arsenic it provides Verizon's large sum vantage earlier different US carriers, truthful nary request to power to 5G phones conscionable yet, unless you privation immoderate of the perks that travel with those, similar each the bells and whistles of the upcoming

Galaxy S23 bid and its caller

Qualcomm Snapdragon X70 modem chips.

Will my 3G telephone halt moving erstwhile Verizon shuts down their 3G networks?

Unfortunately, yes, for the astir portion that needs CDMA connectivity, similar making oregon receiving calls. "When we unopen down the 3G network, determination won't beryllium information oregon dependable work for devices that don't person astatine slightest person 4G capabilities. This means that portion immoderate instrumentality features mightiness inactive work, you won't beryllium capable to entree our web unless you upgrade to a newer device," accidental the carriers for each 3G phones erstwhile their respective networks are sunset.

T-Mobile 2G web shutdown

T-Mobile keeps mum connected the status of its ain legacy 2G GSM network, for which lone a connection that "no day has been set" is presently disposable on

T-Mobile's enactment pages. The 2G (GSM, GPRS, EDGE) web of the Un-carrier is inactive languishing connected the 1900 MHz spectrum for now, with the accustomed informing that "voice and information services don't enactment astatine the aforesaid clip erstwhile connected 2G," and that 1 can't link to the Internet during a call.

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