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Mobile network operator EE<\/a> (BT<\/a>) has published a short progress update on their national plan and timeline for switching off the old 3G<\/a> data (mobile broadband) network, which reveals some of the first UK locations that will be benefitting from the re-farming of related 3G<\/a> spectrum for use by modern 5G<\/a> services.<\/p>\n

All of the country’s primary mobile network operators (EE<\/a>, O2<\/a>, Vodafone<\/a> and Three UK<\/a>) are currently in the process of phasing out their old 3G<\/a> services, with 2G services expected to follow by 2033 at the latest (here<\/a>). Most operators expect to have completely phased out 3G by the end of 2024, although O2<\/a> (VMO2) won\u2019t begin this phase until 2025.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> EE<\/a> customers only spend 2.7% of their time connected to 3G, and it now accounts for less than 0.4% of all downloaded data. But 3G still represents around 35% of their mobile network\u2019s total power consumption.<\/div>\n

The reason why older 2G signals will be sticking around for longer is because they remain useful as a low-power fallback and are still necessary for some rural areas, calls to emergency services, as well as for particular applications (e.g. many Smart Meters and other IoT \/ M2M services are still dependent upon it).<\/p>\n

For its part, EE began moving customers off their old 3G network this year, but the final switch off phase is due to begin next month and run until March 2024 (details<\/a>). The operator has already conducted a trial of this in Warrington<\/strong> (here<\/a>), which they say resulted in \u201cno customer complaints about network coverage or performance<\/em>\u201d and \u201cno capacity issues on either our 2G or 4G<\/a> networks, despite a natural rise in traffic as more people relied on them every day<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The radio spectrum that EE frees up as a result of this change will go toward improving the performance and coverage of their more modern 4G<\/a> and 5G<\/a> networks. As part of that, EE’s latest update<\/a> has named some of the first locations that will benefit from the related spectrum re-farming, specifically for enhanced 5G<\/a> services: Belfast, Darlington, Uxbridge, Dartford, Solihull, York, Dagenham, Hayes, Harringay and London.<\/p>\n

EE will also be keeping all customers registered as \u201cvulnerable<\/em>\u201d connected by offering them a free 4G<\/a>-ready mobile phone (or a discount on a monthly plan if they prefer). EE customers can find out if their mobile phone is already compatible with 4G or 5G, or to get more advice and support with migrating, by texting “HANDSET<\/em>” (without the speech marks) to 150.<\/p>\n

Finally, it’s worth nothing that EE’s 5G network currently reaches 72% of the entire UK population, rising to 99% with 4G.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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