Originally Posted by
Dubai Stu
You're lucky you can do this. ATT disabled the switch on Blackberry Bolds to force the phone to 2g and they did it at the firmware level. Even reflashing the phone with a different provider's implementation of the OS will not restore it.
I don't think any provider's implementation had this option. It was a newly released feature in 4.6.0.282. Once i loaded that software rev I had the option. More info here:
http://forums.crackberry.com/f83/off...leased-251060/
AT&T is always behind on certifying their software releases - so I wouldn't expect the AT&T branded release for a while.