3g Cell service shutdown AT&T Feb 22 2022

[rrlovesbi]

Has AT&T shut down 3G cell service on Hawai'i

[kalakoa]

Official carrier 3G sunset dates. MVNO carriers may be sooner. Applies to all 3G-capable devices, not just phones.

AT&T: February 22, 2022
Sprint: March 31, 2022
T-Mobile: June 30, 2022
Verizon: December 31, 2022

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

At least they’ve announced their plans this time.  10 or 15 years ago my phone stopped making calls & texts.  AT&T said my phone was broken.  Except I had already driven to the Keaau tower and it worked there.  Turns out they couldn’t legally stop service on the frequency my old phone used, so they turned the transmission power down to a one block radius, hoping those of us on that frequency would upgrade. (I wore down the customer service reps until they finally connected me with a high level super-tech support agent in Nova Scotia, in the middle of the night, and she said, OK... you didn’t hear this from me, but...)

I guess they went through the proper channels this time.