{"id":535965,"date":"2026-07-06T15:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/535965\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T15:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:48:08","slug":"t-mobile-to-retire-2g-mobile-network-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/535965\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile to retire 2G mobile network next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"dbrp4\">T-Mobile has confirmed that it will retire its 2G GSM network next month.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"e02vq\">Plans to retire the service by August 3, 2026, were announced by the American mobile carrier last week via the company&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.t-mobile.com\/support\/coverage\/t-mobile-network-evolution\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">network evolution webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"dbrp4\">The announcement follows reports that T-Mobile was notifying customers that it will start migrating customers on 3G and 4G-era rate plans to more expensive 5G plans, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fierce-network.com\/wireless\/t-mobile-says-older-plan-customers-need-5g-refresh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fierce Wireless<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"13fc5\">T-Mobile previously retired its 3G mobile network back in 2022.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"6gqdo\">However, the company has been slower in shutting down its 2G network compared to rivals AT&amp;T and Verizon. AT&amp;T called time on its 2G network back in 2017, while Verizon retired 2G in 2020.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"8h0mb\">\u201cT-Mobile retained GSM longer than other carriers to give customers and partners additional time to migrate legacy devices. Other carriers shut down their GSM networks earlier, and T-Mobile helped fill that gap by maintaining support while customers transitioned to newer technologies,\u201d said a T-Mobile spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"25r6c\">The carrier is instead looking to push customers on legacy 2G plans to 4G and 5G plans instead.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"d09ve\">Launched in the early 1990&#8217;s, 2G heralded the beginning of the data era, and introduced SMS (Short Message Service).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"T-Mobile has confirmed that it will retire its 2G GSM network next month. Plans to retire the service&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-535965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}