3G

As reporterd by Ookla, the global leader in network and connectivity intelligence, 5G speeds around the world have stabilized.

As announced last December, 3G networks are becoming a thing of the past. From flip phones to iPads, many devices will be impacted by the shutdown. Here is everything you need to know.

T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon all announced they would shut down their 3G services this year, shifting the focus entirely to 4G (LTE) and 5G networks in 2022. The first to do so will be the U.S. carrier AT&T, who will discontinue the service in February.

Legend says that when Heinrich Hertz experimented with wireless transmission (transmission and reception of electromagnetic/radio waves) and confirmed Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetism, he thought that this was a neat effect with no major practical application.