AT&T kills the original iPhone after shuttering its 2G network

Jan17

by Sindy Cator on January 17, 2017 at 8:28 pm

After four years of planning, AT&T officially pulled the plug on its 2G network. For owners of the original iPhone, this news means your nine-year-old handset is now officially dead and relegated to a new role as a nostalgic paperweight. It’s the end of an era, and we’re sorry for your loss. You wouldn’t expect this news to impact but a small segment of retro gadget owners, so it might come as a surprise to learn it actually caused a bit of a disaster in San Francisco. One of America’s — if not the world’s — most influential tech cities actually experienced some…