Customers with older devices will have limited access to mobile data services after it is completed.
2G networks were first deployed during the early 1990s and are used for voice calls and text messaging, as well as very low-speed data communications.
5G services are now being deployed across the UK, providing enhanced access to data, with faster speeds and greater capacity.Campaigners have warned that turning off 3G networks will lead to people with older and more basic phones falling into "digital poverty." But it warned that thousands of older people who still used more basic devices would "lose a vital means of communication and data access".
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