There was the fellow demonstrating a spoofed 2G GSM tower at DefCon 18:
And the YouTube video was pretty cool to watch, for technical depth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Part of his talk described how he could (up a point) block 3G, to
cause phones to fail over to 2G, where he could get them.
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