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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 ...

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 ...

While 4G and 5G technologies continue to grow and dominate the landscape, 2G networks are making headlines once again—not for their benefits, but for their significant security risks. Though 2G has ...

Smishing – or SMS phishing – is becoming increasingly common. SMS scams look a lot like traditional email scams, in which a fraudster tries to convince you to click a malicious link or provide ...

T-Mobile's 2G network shuts down next year, or in 2024, to be more exact, years after other carriers did so. The US carrier interestingly continued to offer a 2G network to its customers even after ...

T-Mobile is the last of the US Big Three to still have its 2G networks up, but not for long. Image: Peter Holden/TalkAndroid Editorial Note: Talk Android may contain affiliate links on some articles.

Hungarian telco Magyar Telekom has struck an agreement with Yettel that will see Magyar gradually migrate its customers' 2G traffic to Yettel's national radio access network. The migration started ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is celebrating Google's addition of a 2G kill switch to Android 12. The digital rights group has been campaigning against the dated, insecure 2G cellular standard ...