Vodafone Portugal announced this Friday that it will begin the progressive disconnection of its 3G network from July next year, “an important step to strengthen customer access” to “faster communications.”
In a statement, the operator adds that “the third generation network will begin to be deactivated within a year, which will allow for a smooth and gradual transition” and that the “change will allow the use of frequencies to accelerate the digitalization of the country in 5G and future”. mobile generations”.
Vodafone Portugal “will begin progressively within a year, starting in July 2024, the disconnection of its 3G network, an important step to strengthen the country’s customers’ access to faster, more efficient and even more secure communications.”
The change was expected due to technological evolution “and will allow us to respond to the growing consumption of data, reassigning the frequencies used up to now by 3G for the use of more modern networks such as 4G and 5G.”
The company highlights that “with this update, which benefits the digitization of the country, communications gain more speed, capacity, stability, efficiency, and resilience.”
The majority of Vodafone customers, he guarantees, “will not be affected by this change, since they use equipment and SIM cards compatible with the rest of the generations of mobile communication.”
As for customers who are not in this situation, “they will be contacted by Vodafone at the appropriate time and will have an extended period -one year- to make a gradual transition, either by updating their equipment or the SIM card” .
However, Vodafone has also created a page on its website with the most frequently asked questions so that people can ask questions on this topic.
“3G, which Vodafone pioneered in launching in Portugal in 2004, helped revolutionize its time by enabling, for example, faster mobile Internet access and video streaming on mobile phones. Years ago, it substantially reduced its weight in global data traffic, which is small today. In addition, the network equipment that allows it to function is less energy efficient today, so its modernization and replacement will have a positive environmental impact, ”he explains.
The end of the 3G network in Portugal “follows similar movements carried out by Vodafone in markets such as the Netherlands, Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy, the United Kingdom or Ireland, which are part of a global trend of discontinuing older technologies,” he concludes. .
Source: TSF
