AT&T gives 3G cell service three more years to live

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Cell services have decided – the days of 3G service in the United States are numbered.

AT&T said to the Gazett publication, that it plans to shut the 3G service down in early 2022 to make room for more powerful and faster standards. The decision was disclosed in a regulatory filing last Wednesday. The decision seems to come after rival Verizon warned customers that it too will stop 3G services at the end of 2019.

The ‘killing’ of 3G services was all but certain after cell companies spent billions of dollars expanding and blanketing 4G service in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Moving customers off 3G allows carriers to free up wireless frequencies for 4G signals over broader swaths of the radio spectrum. Verizon said in a recent filing it is “aggressively refarming 3G bands” for 4G but still needs more spectrum to keep up with its users’ demands.