• u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    9 months ago

    In Slovakia there’s 4 carriers.
    Telekom shut down 3G at the end of 2023.
    Orange shut down 3G 4 days ago.
    O2 plans to finish 3G shutdown by 2026.
    Swan never had 3G as they entered the market in 2015.

    However, there’s many devices relying on 2G. Thus 2G shutdown is currently planned for 2030, though there’s been some push to move it to 2028.

    Sucks for me. I was enjoying 30Mbps on 3G as I was basically the only one using it. Meanwhile 4G enjoys getting overloaded to 1Mbps during the day or even less. Although the situation improved to around 4Mbps now as the frequencies used for 3G are now used for 4G, allowing for some load balancing.

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      9 months ago

      A lot of IoT devices still relies on 2G…

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      9 months ago

      During lunch time, I used to be able to switch to 3G and get a healthy 50mbps when it was 1mbps on 4G. This was before 5G so I think it’s mostly solved now.