The saga of Verizon planning to sundown its 3G companies, solely to delay it once more may lastly come to finish. The Big Red initially had plans to cease 3G operations in again 2019, however prolonged it to 2020. Then in January this yr, the corporate put those plans on hold indefinitely. Now, the corporate has introduced it’s going to shut down its 3G CDMA community – for good this time – on December 31, 2022.
December 31, 2022 is the day when Verizon lastly says goodbye to 3G
– Verizon
To recall, Verizon now not permits activation of non-4G units on its community, and is now attempting to migrate its remaining 3G prospects to 4G or 5G with a host of plans and companies for each its common and enterprise prospects. However, Verizon says it’s strongly encouraging the present 3G customers to make the improve. Verizon notes that it will be among the many final carriers to abandon the legacy mobile networking normal.
Existing 3G customers may face community degradation and lack of help transferring ahead
And to obtain that, Verizon says that customers may expertise what it calls ‘a degradation or complete loss of service’ as the corporate additionally plans to cut back its help companies and can solely provide help for extraordinarily restricted troubleshooting. More particulars about Verizon’s CDMA companies can and the amenities which can be allowed / defunct could be seen here.
However, Verizon has made it clear that the December 31, 2022 shutdown date for its 3G telecom infrastructure won’t be prolonged once more. So, yeah, this just about is the ultimate nail within the coffin.
