Verizon Wireless plans to shutter its 2G and 3G CDMA networks by 2021, according to Verizon Wireless' vice president of global strategy Aparna Khurjekar. Khurjekar apparently revealed the details Thursday during a meeting at the CTIA MobileCon trade show.
News of the plan comes as the wireless operator is moving more and more customers to 4G LTE and away from CDMA.?Verizon has said it plans to blanket its entire CDMA network with 4G LTE and get full-on voice-over LTE running by the end of next year.?
For those in the dark, Verizon currently has the largest 4G LTE network nationwide. Just today, the carrier announced its 400th market and plans to soon hae over 75 percent of the population covered with LTE. By comparison, Sprint and AT&T's 4G LTE networks are quite small.
Wireless operators routinely phase out older networks and refarm their spectrum to support newer networks, so the announcement isn't really surprising. Expect to hear more on other carriers doing the same thing over the next couple of years.
Anyway, I'm sure we'll hear more details about the phase out quite soon, so stay tuned and be patient Verizon faithful.?
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Source: http://www.knowyourcell.com/news/1629776/verizon_to_shutter_2g_and_3g_cdma_networks_by_2021.html
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