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Huh, I really thought we did away with band incompatibility (with phones supporting most of them, and them being globally standardized) :(

• pishpash 9y ago
  They are standardized and oftentimes available in hardware but carriers disable them for obvious reasons.
  • pbhjpbhj 9y ago
    Sorry, what are the "obvious" reasons? Why should my phone supplier care to stop me using my phone abroad, say?
    • crysin 9y ago
      Cause they can charge you more for international branded phones.
      • pbhjpbhj 9y ago
        Why doesn't the market work around such companies that are so antagonistic to their customers?
  • merb 9y ago
    do they really disable them? I always thought that LTE modems only come with certain frequency bands. I can slightly remember that the iphone 5 only had 2 or 3 frequency bands while at the beginning of lte some providers did use the frequency which the iphone had more often, so some providers had better lte support. But I can hardly remember, it was some years ago and my provider switch basically came within the lte rollout. I mean it probably also consumes more energy to scan more bands (ok that could be solved with software)