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Internet benchmarking firm Opensignal<\/a> has used their crowdsource data, which is collected via users of their benchmarking apps and services, to reveal a bit more information about how the recent 3G<\/a> mobile switch-off on EE<\/a> (BT<\/a>), Three UK<\/a> (ongoing) and Vodafone<\/a> has impacted the availability of their remaining 2G, 4G<\/a> and 5G<\/a> based mobile \/ broadband services.<\/p>\n

Just to recap. Both EE<\/a> (BT<\/a>) and Vodafone<\/a> completed their shutdown of older 3G<\/a> services in February 2024 (here<\/a> and here<\/a>), while Three UK<\/a> are aiming to complete their own process by the end of this year (here<\/a>). By comparison, O2<\/a> (Virgin Media<\/a>) are planning to both start and complete this process by the end of 2025 (here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> The UK government and all major mobile operators have jointly agreed to phase-out existing 2G and 3G<\/a> signals by 2033 (here<\/a>). But 2G will be the last to go because such signals remain useful as a low-power fallback, particularly for some rural areas, as well as for particular applications (e.g. Energy Smart Meters and other IoT \/ M2M services).<\/div>\n

Mobile operators have generally been compensating for the 3G switch-off in some areas by introducing upgrades to newer 4G<\/a> and 5G<\/a> services (example<\/a>). The removal of 3G is also expected to significantly reduce each operator’s energy usage and free up some radio spectrum to be re-farmed for use by modern services, which could boost their network performance and coverage.<\/p>\n

In fact, we’ve already seen some data from Streetwave<\/a>, which claims to have identified improvements in mobile broadband performance after 3G was switched off by Vodafone<\/a> and Three UK<\/a> in certain areas (here<\/a> and here<\/a>). But it’s still early days, and the results for network coverage seem to be a bit more variable.<\/p>\n

The latest data from Opensignal<\/a> provides some extra context for this change, albeit with a focus more on the change in network availability<\/strong> and the time that UK users now spend on 2G, 3G, 4G<\/a> and 5G<\/a>. For example, Vodafone users were found to have seen a “significant dip in Availability<\/em>” (i.e. the percentage of time users spend with a mobile broadband connection \u2014 either 3G, 4G or 5G) and an “increase in Time on 2G<\/em>” after the switch-off, which will need to change before 2G reaches its own shutdown (i.e. 4G and 5G will then become the primary methods).<\/p>\n

However, the data also shows that Vodafone “turned off 3G relatively abruptly<\/em>” compared to Three UK, and began the process with a much higher Time on 3G than EE<\/a>. But take note that Three UK never had its own 2G network, and EE had the advantage of starting from a much better position than Vodafone in terms of time on 3G.<\/p>\n

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The report also notes that the European region is at the forefront of this transition with over half (52.6%) of global 2G and 3G switch-offs either completed, planned, or in progress. On average, European smartphone users were found to spend 5.5% of their time on 2G or 3G (3.9% for just 3G), which drops to 4.2% for the UK (Moldova tops the table with 18.9%, while Norway sits at the bottom with just 0.8%).<\/p>\n

In the race to move away from legacy mobile technologies, the Nordic countries are currently in the lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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