Note: 3G will disappear from Telenet and Base from September 2024

Telenet and Base clients who personal a cellphone that solely works on 3G should do away with it sooner or later. The supplier publicizes at present from September 2024 flip off the 3G sign. Telephones that do not assist 4G or 5G by then will change again to 2G. Based on the corporate, this considerations a really small group of consumers who can be affected by this. At the moment, 1 % of cell clients use a tool that solely works on 2G or 3G.

Disable 3G at Telenet

Prospects with such telephones can nonetheless make calls and use the web on the 3G community till September 2024. After that, they’re robotically transferred again to the 2G community. Telenet experiences that the 2G community can be saved up and operating in the interim, ’till no less than 2027′, the supplier writes in its press launch. Though clients can proceed to make use of the web, make calls and ship MMS and SMS messages through the 2G community, the pace is significantly decrease than that of the 3G community.

Switching off the 3G community has been on the agenda of telecom suppliers for a while. Orange will begin the phase-out of 3G in 2023 and needs to fully part out the sign from 2025. Proximus, at present the biggest supplier in Belgium, has not but made any statements about this. In the interim, Telenet subsequently seems to be a forerunner of switching off its 3G networks. With good cause: the corporate sees alternatives to speed up its 4G and 5G and supply extra stability.

Secure 4G and 5G networks

After the 3G community is shut down in September 2024, Telenet will transfer the frequencies which might be launched to its 4G and 5G networks. This could make the networks ‘much more secure and quicker’, the corporate concludes. Such stability enhancements are potential as a result of 3G frequencies have a wide range. They’re situated at a decrease wavelength (under 1 GHz) and might subsequently be used at an extended distance.

Particularly in areas the place the vary is now under par, typically resulting in slower speeds, this could ship efficiency features.