Here in South Africa you still have 2G cell services available, but only in rural areas where they do not have the actual user density to make an upgrade worth while. Also only the one provider, using equipment they bought at scrap metal prices from the other operators as they were upgrading networks. As it breaks it gets replaced with 3G equipment, also used equipment, but not worth spending the money to replace the old stuff.
The rest are rolling out 4G to replace 3G, and will probably only deploy 5G in areas of high use density, as South Africa, like Australia, is a big place, and relatively low population density.
Currently -91dBm signal strength from the tower 9m above me, and -71dBm from the other network provider 100m away. Think I have more worries from lead and cyclic aromatics from car emissions than I have from any other thing.
By the way, the thing you are most likely going to die from is cancer, especially in the developed world, and in countries with more or less adequate healthcare. Not because cancer rates are increasing, but more due to more people actually living to the point where all other reasons that would have killed them off, like diabetes, heart attack, stroke, measles, smallpox, polio, influenza, any bacterial infection, childbirth, broken bones, tonsillitus, dental issues, or intestinal upsets like cholera.
Remove all the things that would, even a century ago, have resulted in around half the population not surviving past 60, and the thing that will kill you are the things that are the slowest to do so. As well detection rates are improving, so you can tell a person has cancer while the cancer is still small, and then treat it with a moderate amount of success, instead of the old method, which was finding out that the person had cancer either at the most advanced stage, or in a post mortem.
Most of the people I know of who have died did so from cancer, except for those who died from HIV, TB or from violent incidents. More because they all had controlled the other ways to die, and got old, mostly well into the 80's and low 90's.
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