The American 3G Sunset

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Most US cellular operators are planning to shut down their 3G networks in 2022. Why? And what are the implications, for consumers, businesses, and for the telecommunications industry?

Time to Move On

WCDMA (3G) was an intermediate technology, designed to deliver high speed data, but to also support an old-fashioned “circuit-switched” telephone network. The result was a network that could…