2degrees has completed its 3G shutdown in New Zealand. In doing so, the carrier becomes the first telco to switch off its ...

Voice usage on Spark’s 3G network has declined by 70 percent since the telco announced its impending shutdown last June, with ...

The UK's biggest mobile provider has announced it will be shutting down its 3G services imminently this year, and Martin ...

Spark New Zealand has reported that 3G usage on its network is down by 70 percent since June. Significantly, that was when Spark confirmed a hard date for its 3G shutdown, which is set for March 31, ...

While the number of customers remaining on 3G networks is now small, in the region of one to two percent, late switchers are disproportionately located in the weather-affected districts. Removing ...

CHICAGO -- Twenty years after 3G was first introduced in the United States, paving the way for a new generation of mobile apps, the network is officially being phased out. AT&T is set to pull the plug ...

The 3G shutdown is primarily intended to re-use the spectrum for 4G and 5G, which are newer standards, better technologies and more efficient. The same thing happened with 2G, which AT&T and Verizon ...

2degrees has become the first New Zealand telco to complete the shutdown of its 3G services. The company announced today it had completed the full nationwide shutdown of 3G services last night, after ...

Spark New Zealand outlined plans to shut down its 3G network by the end of 2025 to free up low-band spectrum to extend 5G service in rural areas. The operator stated 4 per cent of total network data ...

2degrees has completed the shutdown of its 3G services. The shutdown removed 3G services from operation and will see 2degrees mobile users connected to the more modern 4G and 5G networks.

Spark New Zealand's 3G voice and data usage dropped 70 per cent and 50 per cent, respectively, ahead of a network shutdown on ...