Verizon Confirms That It Will No Longer Activate 3G Phones (droid-life.com)

According to Droid Life, Verizon is no longer activating 3G-only phones. Instead, they will only accept 4G LTE-equipped phones going forward. Here's what Verizon had to say about the matter: "For several years we've been been publicly saying that our 3G CDMA network will remain available through the end of 2019. Virtually all traffic on our network is on our 4G LTE network. To facilitate a smooth transition to 4G LTE capable products and services, we are no longer allowing devices that are not 4G LTE capable to be activated on our network." From the report: Now, as is noted in the statement above, Verizon has committed to shutting down its 3G CDMA network by the end of 2019. They also stopped selling 3G devices some time ago, I believe, and even started selling LTE-only flip phones to replace them. [...] On a related note, an earlier leak suggested that Verizon may stop some older LTE devices from being activated too. The documentation there said that CDMA devices as well as devices that do not support HD Voice or VoLTE will not be accepted.

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[known_coward_69]

CDMA is not dead. Current LTE is a more advanced version of CDMA and called something else because Qualcomm submitted it to a standards body.

Verizon's CDMA was designed for voice and data was added on as a second thought. While modern versions of CDMA are designed for data and voice.

what you call GSM is the old voice only TDMA tech which was competing with CDMA for voice

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[vtcodger]

Telegraphs and telephones largely do different things. Roughly, telephony is voice. Telegraphy is text. The two existed in parallel for about a century. What killed telegraphy wasn't telephony. It was satellite communications,the Internet, and the widespread availability of PCs and modems that allowed cheap, reliable, digital communications via the telephone voice network.