AT&T Canceling Support for 3G Phones Feb 2022...

vienna · 05-31-21, 02:26 AM

I found this story and I thought it might be of interest to those who might still be using older cell phones on the AT&T network; in a nutshell, AT7T is ditching the 3G part of its network to give more attention to the new 5G standard, so if anyone is clinging to an older phone hosted on the AT&T network,after February 2022, they won't work anymore; so, if you know anyone wh might be affected and is not now aware of the change, you might want to pass on the info...

Unless your phone is on this list, it’ll stop working when AT&T shuts down its old network --

https://bgr.com/tech/att-3g-network-...-work-5928268/

...this is a link to the T&T site for verifying if a phone will be affected by the network change...

https://www.att.com/support/article/wireless/KM1324171/

I wonder how long it will take fo the other phone companies to follow suit and dump their own 3G support? Given that such a wholesale deletion of a segment of their network not only saves them the costs of network support, they also can look forward to a respectable increase in the sales of new replacement phones and accessories, something that will not be lost on the other phone companies...

...and, if they see a sizable enough windfall, might it not hasten the extinction of 4G, a much larger potential souce of new sales...?...

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05-31-21, 02:26 AM	#1
vienna Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Anywhere but the here & now... Posts: 7,711 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	AT&T Canceling Support for 3G Phones Feb 2022... I found this story and I thought it might be of interest to those who might still be using older cell phones on the AT&T network; in a nutshell, AT7T is ditching the 3G part of its network to give more attention to the new 5G standard, so if anyone is clinging to an older phone hosted on the AT&T network,after February 2022, they won't work anymore; so, if you know anyone wh might be affected and is not now aware of the change, you might want to pass on the info... Unless your phone is on this list, it’ll stop working when AT&T shuts down its old network -- https://bgr.com/tech/att-3g-network-...-work-5928268/ ...this is a link to the T&T site for verifying if a phone will be affected by the network change... https://www.att.com/support/article/wireless/KM1324171/ I wonder how long it will take fo the other phone companies to follow suit and dump their own 3G support? Given that such a wholesale deletion of a segment of their network not only saves them the costs of network support, they also can look forward to a respectable increase in the sales of new replacement phones and accessories, something that will not be lost on the other phone companies... ...and, if they see a sizable enough windfall, might it not hasten the extinction of 4G, a much larger potential souce of new sales...?... <O> __________________ __________________________________________________ __