Japan – According to Eurotechnology Japan, 31 March 2010 will be the last day of 2G mobile phone services by Softbank, and soon after Softbank will switch off all 2G base stations. NTT-DoCoMo will follow in March 2012. Thus, after March 2012 there will be no more 2G cellphone services in Japan at all. NTT-DoCoMo started 3G services in May 2001 for testing, and from October 2001 in full commercial service. Therefore the complete 2G->3G transition from start to finish will have taken 10 … [Read more...] about Japan switches off 2G