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Does the iPhone 5 work on a 3G network?

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    4G Phones are NOT backwards compatible; rather they have separate radio channels, chips and frequencies. your 4G iPhone 5 has a 3G chip in it. It will use 3G when 4G is not available.

  • chen
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    that's no longer an simple question, simply by fact that there's no longer a unmarried 3G or 4G community. whilst is certainty there are a number of 3G & 4G frequencies, no longer all used via all cellular telephone distributors. there's no longer one kind of iPhone 5, (nor countless the top rate telephones) particularly there are countless, some artwork better on some telephone distributors than others. This all get extra complicated particularly than less demanding the extra you comprehend.

  • Yes, 4g phones are backwards compatible, which means they work on 3g too.

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