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The new i, Phone 12 is here and Apple is boasting that it features 5G support. Company Insider's senior tech correspondent, Lisa Eadicicco, explains how the fifth-generation technology is setting Apple's latest i, Phone up for the future. WHEN WILL AT&T, VERIZON AND T-MOBILE PHASE OUT 3G? AT&T announced that its 3G network will be shut off by February 2022.

1, 2022, and retire Sprint's LTE network by June 30, 2022. T-Mobile likewise prepares to close down its 3G networks by July 1, 2022, and will retire its older GSM 2G network, but no date has actually been set. Verizon said it would end up decommissioning its 3G network by Dec. 31, 2022.

The dates offered to the FCC are for finishing the shutdowns, suggesting carriers might begin retiring networks in some regions earlier. Another Point of View MOBILE PHONES WILL LOSE SERVICE AFTER THE 3G NETWORK SHUTDOWN? Apple phones older than the i, Phone 6 and Samsung phones older than the Galaxy S5, for example, are among the once-popular devices that will lose cell service support.

T-Mobile has actually not published a breakdown of devices that might or may not lose service, thatcustomers are worried about whether they are affected, "rest will be contacted." WHAT OTHER GADGETS WILL BE IMPACTED BY THE 3G PHASE-OUT? Cellular phones aren't the only devices that will face connection concerns in the coming year.

Gadgets that utilize cellular connectivity as a backup when a wired web connection decreases will be affected, too. There is a concern in the alarm and security market over AT&T's prepared sunset of its 3G network. The Alarm Market Communications Committee (AICC), an industry group, stated its members have actually been working to update its hardware given that AT&T announced the retirement date in 2019.

The AICC has actually submitted a petition with the FCC in May asking the Commission to delay AT&T shutting down 3G till the end of 2022 in order to avoid "the damaging, even lethal, effect this sundown would have on 10s of countless individuals." AT&T, in its own filing to the FCC, opposed the ask for a hold-up, citing its 3 years of notification as ample for alarm business to make necessary upgrades.