UMTS, the third-generation mobile standard (3G), is soon to be a thing of the past, with Swisscom beginning its shutdown at ...

ONE of the UK’s biggest mobile networks has warned customers that the shutdown of a long-running service is almost complete – ...

Virgin Media O2, the owner of the O2 mobile network, has confirmed its 3G mobile network will be switched off completely “in ...

Virgin Media O2 has confirmed that it will complete the switch off of its 3G network in the "coming weeks" in the UK. In a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. 3G cell service – it was a big deal when it ...

Mobile phone users on 3G declined 26.8 percent to 5.68 million as of September 2025 compared to 7.77 million a year earlier.

With 92.2 million subscribers, only 22 million of whom are on 4G, the transition faces hurdles regarding handset ...

To move its mobile customers over to 4G without service interruptions, AT&T (T), which owns CNN’s parent company, has been providing free replacement phones to many users with a 3G device. It has also ...

BSNL, one of India’s oldest telecom operators, is reportedly considering shutting down its 3G network across the country as ...

The 3G network shutdown is coming and mainly will affect older phones like iPhones before iPhone 6. As AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile usher in the 5G era, they're also about to end their support for 3G.

Aaron Hommell bought his 3G iPhone 5 in 2014 and kept it for more than seven years, holding onto it even after the screen cracked and a long list of faster models hit the market. Then a year ago, AT&T ...