The first high-speed mobile network, 3G, was launched in Australia in 2003. But from today, all of its networks will have been switched off, impacting thousands of devices across the nation.
watches, iPads, medical devices, mobile phone boosters and location devices in cars, trucks and machinery as well as some farm equipment, will stop working, as the 3G network prepares to shut down.
Vodafone is the first of the UK's main mobile network providers to start switching off 3G Vodafone is set to begin switching off its 3G network across Glasgow as part of a UK-wide shutdown.