SK Telecom has filed a request to South Korea's IT ministry to end its 2G services, the telco said late Thursday. The Ministry of ICT and Science said it would process the request as soon as possible ...

Hong Kong Telecom (HKT) has confirmed it will retire its 2G network by November 8. In an announcement last week, HKT said it will reallocate the spectrum for its 5G network. HKT noted that its 2G ...

French mobile operator Bouygues Telecom will decommission its 2G network by the end of 2026, while its 3G service will be switched off in 2029. As with many other operators around the world, the ...

China Telecom's 2G shutdown in Guangdong has left some of its users with 2G devices without working phones. The provincial telco branch Guangdong Telecom, which began to turn off its 2G network at the ...

SK Telecom Co., South Korea's top mobile carrier by subscribers, started to shut down its 2G services Monday, following receiving government approval last month to terminate its 25-year-old network.

Calls for shutting down 2G networks in the Indian mobile market have been transpiring for some time. But with unique dynamics of the telecom industry, is it sensible to close down the networks which ...

While 3G networks will be fully decommissioned by the end of 2026, the 2G network phaseout will follow a separate timeline, particularly in regions like Mindanao where 2G remains essential for basic ...

The lack of urgency within India's government to resolve the allocation of 2G spectrum issue by fixing the reserve pricing is a blow to its credibility and will hamper the development of the local ...

New phones that only support 2G will not be able to connect to the country’s mobile network from March 1, according to the Vietnam Telecommunications Authority. The agency, which operates under the ...

India’s telecom auction process has a long history associated with politics, corruption, and legal cases, writes J Gopikrishnan The 5G spectrum auction has reaped a whopping sum of Rs 1,50,173 crore ...