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3G shutdown table example
Notes
Removed Liberty Puerto Rico, as it is somewhat of an AT&T MVNO; they bought the assets of AT&T in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands in 2019, so it could be considered as its own separate network, but I'm not sure <-- AT&T has sold it's infrastructure inPR & USVI completely, I think we had a source for that as well,but somewhere else. I'll check on that.
Removed Canada due to disputed dates (see 3G talk page) <-- scrap the hologram.io source, it may not qualify as WP:RS , keep Rogers as "partial shutdown" (see second source for 1900 MHz band change of services)
Removed South Korea due to synthesis concerns raised by both me and SamBC on 3G talk page <-- still not happy with this solution, we need more sources and should keep that point open for now
Changed Taiwan and Malaysia (except Digi) to "per government statement", as the government required all carriers to shut down by that date, but didn't name any directly <-- I'm fine with that, we may also add "all carriers"
Removed Asia Pacific Telecom in Taiwan due to the lack of a source <-- There was a source once, I can remember that, otherwise this entry would have been removed already. Let me have a look.
Most recent source added for some dates (ex. China Telecom, KPN) <-- should be fine as an additional source in the main table. Additional sources from China are valuable and very rare.
Trying out "(<) end of (year)" instead of "(year)-12-31" for sources that state "(by) the end of the year" for a shutdown (doesn't include sources that explicitly say "December 31", such as Verizon) <-- not really necessary FMPOV, as dates are updated anyway as soon as more precise dates become available in most cases.
Also trying out more specific descriptors as given by sources <-- ? --> Added some notes. Nightwalker-87 (talk ) 12:17, 4 December 2022 (UTC)
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^ "Vodafone Ireland unveils plans to phase out 3G" . TeleGeography. 2022-06-30. Retrieved 2022-07-03 .
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^ "TIM 3G switch-off now scheduled for mid-October" . TeleGeography. 2022-06-10. Retrieved 2022-06-19 .
^ "TIM completes 3G shutdown" . CommsUpdate . Retrieved 2022-11-26 .
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^ "Telia shuts down a third of 3G base stations" . TeleGeography. 2022-06-06. Retrieved 2022-06-06 .
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^ "Vodafone announces 4G or 5G to fully replace 3G in late 2024" . CommsUpdate . Retrieved 2022-11-26 .
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