Now that it has more than 92 percent of its entire traffic on its LTE network, Verizon is setting the wheels in motion to shut down its legacy 2G CDMA 1x network. The carrier has already provided a timeframe for the shutdown, giving those who are still relying on this network ample time to make the switch to the more modern offerings from Big Red. Verizon is going to refarm the spectrum saved by shutting down the 2G CDMA 1x network for LTE.
Verizon spokesman Chuck Hamby has said that the carrier is not going to leave any customer behind before the legacy network is shut down. “We will work with each of the customers one-on-one. Should there be stragglers, we will continue to work with them,” he said.
Some of the machines that are still powered by this network include M2M machines like remotely read water meters. They still use CDMA 1x and Verizon will continue working to transition such devices to LTE.
Big Red’s first warning about this shut down came back in 2012 which it called “A decade worth of pre-warning,” back then Verizon had said that it would shut down its 2G and 3G CDMA networks by 2021. That date was only a guideline as Verizon now says that its 2G CDMA 1x network will bite the dust in December 2019.
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