It looks like US Cellular covers Knoxville. They still have CDMA 3G operating, and will be shutting it down January 2024. Very likely your phone is connecting to them because it’s the only network it can find.
It looks like US Cellular covers Knoxville. They still have CDMA 3G operating, and will be shutting it down January 2024. Very likely your phone is connecting to them because it’s the only network it can find.
No, 1x was (barely) considered 3G when it launched. The 2G version of CDMA only supported Circuit Switched data, which was basically the cellular version of dialup (as in you literally had to dial up an ISP to be connected, and it was tethering-only to a laptop).