Indian GSM operators lobby for CDMA spectrum
Airtel, Vodafone and Idea are pressing the Indian government to reallocate part of the country’s CDMA spectrum for GSM-based services, arguing the move is justified by the declining interest among...
View ArticleVodafone’s 2G extension plans blocked in India
India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has rejected Vodafone's request to renew its 2G licences in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata. The licences, which cover 900MHz and 1800MHz frequencies and are...
View ArticleVodafone blasts Indian regulator on licence renewal decision
Vodafone India has lambasted India’s Department of Telecom (DoT) for throwing out its request to renew a 2G licence for Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata [1]. In a strongly-worded letter to DoT, the operator...
View ArticleSingTel to shut 2G network in 2-3 years
LIVE FROM LTE ASIA 2014: SingTel plans to consolidate its network infrastructure by shutting down its 2G network in two to three years and then reuse the spectrum. Kuan Moon Yuen, SingTel’s CEO for its...
View ArticleCAT, True plan network sharing deal by March
Thailand's state-owned CAT Telecom plans to finalise a network sharing deal with True Move by March, after reaching a similar deal with dtac last month. CAT acting president Sanpachai Huvanandan said...
View ArticleIndia’s spectrum auction attracts 8 operators
Eight operators in India have stepped forward to participate in the country’s long-awaited spectrum auctions next month. The bidding companies will be Aircel, Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular, Reliance Jio...
View ArticleTelenor Norway to shut down 3G network in 2020; five years before 2G
Telenor Norway’s CTO, Magnus Zetterberg, said the company plans to completely shut down its 3G network in 2020, five years before it closes 2G in 2025. Speaking at the company’s analyst and investor...
View ArticleSingapore operators to turn off 2G by April 2017
Singapore’s three mobile operators -- M1, Singtel and StarHub -- said today they will turn off their 2G networks by 1 April 2017 and reallocate the 2G spectrum for 3G and 4G services. Of the country's...
View ArticleFast-growing India forecast to have 1.4B mobile connections in 2020
India’s mobile connections are forecast to expand 50 per cent to 1.4 billion by 2020, when mobile penetration will reach 100 per cent. The country currently has 970 million mobile connections, with...
View ArticleOperators and vendors predict long life for 2G
LIVE FROM LTE WORLD SUMMIT 2015: Big name operators and vendors such as EE, KPN, Nokia, Orange and Vodafone this week agreed that 2G technology is likely to live on into a fruitful old-age alongside 4G...
View ArticleThai regulator extends deadline on 1.8GHz cut-off
Thailand’s telecoms regulator has given True and AIS an additional six months to move all customers on their 1.8GHz networks, which are concessions from state-owned CAT Telecom, to other spectrum...
View ArticleOptus plans 2017 2G shut-off
Australian operator Optus revealed plans to shut down its 2G network “from 1 April 2017,” stating that “2G now constitutes a fraction of our total mobile network traffic and is declining significantly...
View ArticleIndia’s state-owned BSNL loses 16M connections
India’s state-owned BSNL has lost more than 16 million mobile connections, or 18 per cent of its entire base, over the past 12 months. The loss-making operator, with 73.2 million connections at the end...
View ArticleTelstra shuts down 2G network after 23 years
Australia’s largest mobile operator Telstra closed its 2G network at the beginning of December after more than 23 years. Mike Wright, Telstra’s managing director of networks, said in an online post...
View ArticleAT&T warns of $1B pre-tax loss for Q4
AT&T will file a $1 billion pre-tax loss in its Q4 results because of an annual remeasurement of pension and other post-employment benefit plans. In a regulatory filing issued ahead of the release...
View ArticleSunrise to discontinue 2G network by the end of 2017
Swiss operator Sunrise will be the first of the country’s operators to switch off its “outdated” 2G network and move customers onto newer technologies. The company said it would stop supporting 2G-only...
View ArticleBlog: Who will be last in Asia to turn off 2G (or 3G)?
Over the weekend, Taiwan joined a growing list of developed markets where mobile operators are discontinuing their 2G services. Despite nearly 90,000 holdouts (0.3 per cent of the country’s 31 million...
View ArticleOptus finalises 2G shutdown
Optus will turn off its 2G network across Australia completely on 1 August, in a move allowing the operator to re-allocate some of the spectrum and “investigate emerging technologies such as 5G”. The...
View ArticleEE redeploys 2G spectrum to boost 4G speeds
EE revealed plans to refarm 2G spectrum in five major UK cities, a move it stated will prepare its 4G network to match the capabilities of the latest breed of LTE smartphones. The BT-owned mobile...
View ArticleRCom mobile future in question
Reliance Communications (RCom) is reportedly planning to shutter major parts of its wireless business in November, due to increased competition in the Indian market and a failed merger bid. The...
View ArticleIndian court clears all accused in 2G corruption case
An Indian court acquitted all accused, including former telecoms minister A. Raja, in a long-running corruption case regarding the sale of 2G licences in 2008, due to a lack of evidence. A total of 19...
View ArticleIntelligence Brief: Top 10 holiday spots for mobile fans
If you haven’t yet decided where you’re going to take your summer holiday this year, I have some good news and some bad news. I’ll start with the bad: time is running out. Seriously; you’ve got about a...
View ArticleVietnam plots 2G shutdown
Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communications outlined a roadmap to begin turning off the country’s 2G networks in early 2022, as it seeks to bolster spectrum stocks for 4G and 5G, VNExpress...
View ArticleThai operators keep 2G alive
Operators in Thailand backtracked on a plan to decommission their 2G networks, telling the nation’s regulator they would continue to deliver services to avoid potential problems for customers, Bangkok...
View ArticleSK Telecom gets nod to shut 2G service
South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT cleared SK Telecom (SKT) to phase out its 2G service, ending 23 years of service due to dwindling user numbers and high running costs, Yonhap News Agency...
View ArticleVietnam to halt import, production of 2G, 3G handsets
Vietnam moved to promote the uptake of smartphones to advance its digital ambitions, issuing a regulation banning the production and import of 2G and 3G handsets from the beginning of July, Vietnam...
View Article¿Qué apagados de red nos esperan en 2021?
Una de las repercusiones más visibles de la Covid-19 (nuevo coronavirus) ha sido el incremento en el uso de las tecnologías digitales. Por ello, el acceso a Internet de alta velocidad es más importante...
View ArticleLG Uplus phases out 2G
LG Uplus received approval to shut down its 2G network, joining rivals which previously ended the little-used service, Yonhap News Agency reported. The operator today (25 May) received clearance from...
View ArticleSmarTone 2G service makes way for 5G
Hong Kong-based SmarTone received regulatory approval to shut down its 2G network in October as users migrate off its legacy infrastructure to 5G services, with less than 0.1 per cent on its oldest...
View ArticleMavenir, BICS employ VoLTE to bridge roaming gaps
Voice and mobile data wholesaler BICS and cloud-native network software provider Mavenir moved to tackle a looming problem affecting roaming interoperability as operators shutdown 2G and 3G networks,...
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