2G Re-Farming: How Does this Affect the Growth of M2M?
IT Connection Blog by Kitty WeldonSummary Bullets: · AT&T’s announcement that it will gradually (market by market) shut down its 2G network to reutilize spectrum resources for higher bandwidth technologies and applications (and that this re-farming will be complete by 2017) spurred controversy last week. Competitors implied that many M2M customers would be stranded and would either have to change providers or pay more to AT&T for 3G or even 4G connections. · AT&T notes that only 12% of all post-paid connections over its network are 2G today . While the make-up of these connections