3G networks are being built in areas throughout the world. First introduced in Japan in 2001, they are being adopted by close to 150 operators worldwide. UMTS is the next evolution of the GSM/GPRS ...

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The Universal Mobile Telecommunications System—UMTS—is being deployed at a time when access to data services through the Internet is taken for granted. Current GSM and GPRS systems serve voice and ...

The Alpharetta Police Department recently released information to help warn citizens about an upcoming change affecting older cellular phones. Wireless carriers are going to be shutting down their 3G ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)- 5G is here and wireless phone companies are slowly getting rid of 3G networks in 2022. Any 3G device, whether it’s a smartphone, tablet, or smartwatch, will not be able to ...

T-Mobile has settled on a date for shutting down its legacy UMTS 3G network: it’s July 1st, 2022. The company has updated its Network Evolution support page to reflect the changes. A report last month ...

If your mobile phone is more than a few years old, it’s likely time for an upgrade. Major mobile carriers will be shutting down older 3G networks in 2022, making older phones and some other devices ...

THE END OF 3G SERVICE MEANS FOR YOU. CHANGE IS CONGMI TO A CELL PHONE TOWER NEAR YOU STARTING IN 2022 3G SERVICE WILL NO LONGER WORK CELL CARRIERS ARE SHUTTING DOWN THE OLD NETWORK TO MAKE ROOM FOR 5G ...

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Motorola, Inc. , the world's second-largest maker of mobile phones, on Thursday said it's won a contract with India's Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited to build a ...

MTS continues to disconnect communication networks of the outdated UMTS (3G) standard with the transfer of the released frequencies to LTE (4G). In the third quarter of 2025, the company stopped using ...

AT&T Wireless last week anticlimactically launched Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service in four markets here in the U.S. I say “anticlimactically” because while UMTS uses 3G technology ...