Switzerland : "Swisscom to switch on 5G nationwide by 1 October 2019"

Obsolete 3G systems from Tuesday?
Media release: "Swisscom to switch on 5G nationwide by 1 October 2019" 
schutz-vor-strahlung.ch, 28 September 2019 - translation

As of Tuesday, 1 October 2019, Swisscom intends to connect the 5G network throughout Switzerland. With a software change for thousands of 3G antennas, these will now be usable for 5G devices. Swisscom is thus ignoring the will of the population and pretending to have a "super-fast mobile network", even though only the slow 3G antennas are being reused.

Swisscom's 3G network works with slower 900 MHz and slightly faster 2,100 MHz bands. This is now a thing of the past. From 1 October 2019, Swisscom intends to switch the faster 3G bands to 5G. It has thus found a way of avoiding all licensing procedures when introducing 5G. In return, the existing 3G network will lose a great deal of quality and become slower.

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