Since the very early 1990s, we have become used to ubiquitous digital mobile phone coverage for both voice and data. Such has been their success that they have for many users entirely supplanted the ...

SMS Blasters — which are also known as Stingrays, False Base Stations (FBS), and cell-site simulators — can be used by nefarious parties to “lure mobile devices to connect to them” and send fake text ...

These are the twilight hours of 2G. The old mobile phone network, on which many of us spent our youth in the '90s texting and playing Snake, is slowly getting phased out in Australia. The country's ...

Closing down 2G fits with the regulator's remit of making the best use of available spectrum. Typical phone replacement rates are something like every twenty months, so killing off something which saw ...

T-Mobile will shut down its 2G network on February 9, 2025, after multiple delays. Eligible users can exchange their 2G ...

Haroun joined Android Police in 2021, reporting on the latest stories in the tech world. Since then, he’s gleefully covered everything from the most mundane Google Docs features to more mainstream ...

The telco said it will reutilize the 900 MHz spectrum from the 2G network into its 4G and 5G networks. "With the 2G frequency spectrum that will be freed up, we can further improve our network," says ...

Google has finally rolled out an option on Android allowing users to disable 2G connections, which come with a host of privacy and security problems exploited by cell-site simulators. The addition of ...

Google recently added an option to switch off insecure 2G connectivity in Android smartphone modems, a move that has been welcomed by digital civil liberties group the Electronic Frontier Foundation ...

France's Elevator Federation (Fédération des Ascenseurs) has asked for the shutdown of the country's 2G and 3G networks to be delayed. The networks, which are planned to be phased out by 2029, are ...

Some parts of the world still have ample 2G coverage; for those of in North America, 2G is long gone and 3G has either faded into dusk or beginning its sunset. The legendary [dosdude1] shows us it ...

A special CBI court on Thursday acquitted all 18 accused including A Raja and K Kanimozhi in 2G spectrum allocation case. The scam came to light almost seven years ago when the Comptroller and Auditor ...