5G may be coming, but 3G is going away. It was the first really useful mobile data service, holding so much promise in its initial years that the very first iPhone was dinged by critics for not ...

In February, AT&T announced the shutdown of its 2G and 3G cellular networks, the first of several sunsets occurring in the U.S. this year. Mobile network operators are reallocating radio spectrum from ...

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.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is transforming society. Connectivity is paramount for people and machines alike. As humans interact more with devices for purposes that might be professional or ...

The rollout of 3G (third-generation) wireless data networks began in Japan as early as 2001, but the first 3G network didn’t appear in the United States until 2002. Major rollouts began here a few ...

O2, one of the UK’s largest mobile networks, is set to halt its 3G network nationwide in 2026, leaving older phones unable to ...

AT&T is scheduled Tuesday to turn off its 3G cellular network. T-Mobile is scheduled to turn its off on July 1, 2022, and Verizon is slated to follow suit on Dec. 31, 2022. So why are the ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Twenty years ago the concept of ...

Most of the excitement at Mobile World Congress this month will be about 5G, which won’t officially exist until 2020. But vendors will also be showing off new ways to speed up the networks people are ...

Pakistan’s mobile market showed modest growth in November 2025, as subscriber additions slowed and next-generation adoption ...