Your T-Mobile phone might stop working in January

[Chris Smith]

• T-Mobile will shut down its 3G network in January 2021, a year before AT&T plans to retire the same network standard.
• A leak reveals that T-Mobile plans to require all handset makers to support VoLTE calls or phone service over 4G, and warn customers who own incompatible devices to upgrade their handsets.
• A statement from T-Mobile indicates that devices that support VoLTE calls currently represent "the overwhelming majority of devices on the network."

Mobile operators have started retiring the old 2G and 3G networks to repurpose the bandwidth for 4G and 5G in the years to come. People who own newer smartphones that can support Voice over LTE (VoLTE), or calls over 4G networks, won't be impacted by the change. But if you have an older device that uses 3G for regular voice calls, you'll have to upgrade to something newer. AT&T scared its subscribers earlier this week, telling them that their handsets will not work soon, even though the AT&T 3G shutdown is scheduled for February 2022. T-Mobile will end its 3G service more than a year earlier than AT&T, in January 2021. The carrier will soon inform its customers about the upcoming change.

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