>Japan's NTT Docomo was the first to turn off 2G in 2011. The other Japanese players quickly followed the market leader.
GSM is literally ancient shit using narrow-band audio codecs from the late 80s for speech that make you sound like you sit in a enclosed barrel. EDGE is a slow-ass high-latency excuse for an internet connection. What's your shithole's excuse for still keeping it around?
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Reliability
The gaming republic from which we stand on, so help us God
Reliability. If you're in a place without 4G, you most likely have EDGE.
Oxymoron.
t. brainlet
Nobody even sells 2G equipment anymore, so the carriers have to buy and tear down already broken hardware to fix theirs.
We're turning off 3G at the end of this year, 4G LTE+ up to 4CA, with 5G rolling out next year.
I was finally forced to go in and swap my 3G sim for 4G a little while ago.
4G can be deployed on the same frequencies occupied by 2G, not an argument.
3G and 4G signal is very weak in my area
in the city 20km away from here perfect 4G signal
until 4G has 100% coverage older signals will stay
Boomers. When they're all rounded up and shot we'll have LTE/5G.