2G and 3G shutdown dates, by country and operator

Updated 26 October 2026

As of 26 October 2026, we track 187 mobile operators in 60 countries: 43 have switched off their 2G network and 101 their 3G network, 95 shutdowns are planned with a date or a year, and 72 statuses are still unclear. Each country page lists every operator with its sources.

Key takeaways

• Plan new devices on 4G-based radios: LTE Cat-1bis, LTE-M or NB-IoT.
• 3G closes first in most countries; 2G often survives longer for machines and emergency fallback.
• Multi-network SIMs buy time, not a solution: they move to an operator that still runs 2G until it closes too.
• The data is free to reuse: download the full table as CSV.

Status by country

Click a country for the detail by operator, with dates and sources.

How we built this table

• Survey date: 26 October 2026. Each row also gives the date of its sources.
• Source preference: the operator’s own announcement or the national regulator first; then GSMA and trade press; IoT vendors’ trackers only when nothing better exists, and always marked.
• “Switched off” is used only when a source confirms the shutdown happened; a passed date without confirmation stays “planned”.
• Known gaps: some operators publish no plan, and some countries have no reliable public source yet; those rows are marked “unclear” rather than guessed.

Related

• Permanent roaming rules by country
• IoT SIM coverage by country
• LTE Cat-1bis, LTE-M, NB-IoT