Come April 2017, all the local telcos will retire the 2G networks for good. In short, those handsets with only 2G networks capacity will not be supported and the consumers need to switch to the newer 3G or 4G handsets.   In fact, with the speed-craze global population (when comes to tech gadgets), it is a matter of time this would happen and I thought it is already long overdue. To be frank, I think there are hardly anyone still carrying the 2G handsets nowadays, so, the cost (in maintaining the support for this service) is definitely outweigh the benefits.   Like in the stock investing/trading world, just not long ago, most of the stock trading are done through a stock broker/remisier physically at the trading floor. Fast forward to the present, most of the stock trading are done electronically either through PC, laptops or mobile devices. Again, speed and ......