Liberty Mobile will be the first mobile provider in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands to turn off the 3G network. It will take place on next February 22. "This is part of our plan to continue improving the network and offer a better experience in general for mobile users on the Island, and be more efficient in the use of the spectrum", explained Victor Vera, senior director of RAN engineering at Liberty Mobile. “Periodically, providers need to shut down older technologies like 2G and 3G to free up spectrum and infrastructure to support and expand new services like 5G”.

For its part, T-Mobile set March 31 as the date to shut down Sprint's older 3G (CDMA) network. Meanwhile, on June 30 it will do the same with the 4G LTE network that came from Sprint, and on July 1, with the T-Mobile 3G network.

In the case of Claro, the president of Puerto Rico Enrique Ortiz de Montellano clarified: “we are not going to turn off the 3G network throughout the year. We are going to continue with the natural migration and see how many clients we have at the end”. He warned that there are payment terminals at points of sale that have not migrated to 4G and 5G technologies.