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AT&T shut down their GSM 2G network in 2017 - the remaining circuit switched calls were going out over UMTS (3G) until the shutdown.

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The radio interface used is 3G/4G, but it still used circuit switching instead of IMS (which uses GPRS channel - just like your 3G/4G/5G data - and SIP, iirc)

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