[pajko]

Critical systems are using or will fallback to 2G, which will stay with us forever. The bandwidth is not required there anyway.

[scheeseman486]

2G services were shut down in Australia back in 2016-2017.

[tw1984]

I am still on 3G, the provider keeps calling me and asking me to switch to their new plan. I just keep telling them that their current plan I am on is the world's best and there is no way I would switch to anything else.

[martyvis]

Yes I'm trying to work out how we managed to survive without a 2G fallback here in Oz. 3G is shutting down by the end of this year.

[kube-system]

Is the UK not going to sunset 2G? Here in the states the last 2G towers are disappearing here in a couple of months, and much of the network has been gone for years.

[unleaded]

2g will be shutting down in 2033, 3g will be shutting down around 2025. a lot of people have 2g phones

[toast0]

IIUC, 2G and 3G both require a fairly sizable block of spectrum to operate. If you have three carriers all operating minimum width 2G service, it adds up. 5G has some sort of coexistance story with 4G so in the future when LTE is being killed, they can let it live a bit and only waste spectrum as its used.

[usr1106]

Certainly not forever, but maybe a couple of years.

At work we use Sierra Wireless modems which are only 3G + 4G. So in practice only 4G in many countries already now or in a couple of months.

The Netherlands close down 2G but keep 3G. (I am being told, not living or working there.)