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Wait a second, sorry if I am ignorant on the matter but... carriers _whitelist_ phones in America? That sounds absolutely insane to me (as a European). Is there
by shirogane86x 4y ago
Wait a second, sorry if I am ignorant on the matter but... carriers _whitelist_ phones in America? That sounds absolutely insane to me (as a European). Is there a particular reason why they do that? and also, is there any reason why it is allowed? I don't think I've ever heard of anything like this over here in my country. And even though I'm not a law person, I'm pretty sure something like that would either be illegal or just disaster for the company.
- Semaphor 4y agoI think it’s a leftover from the old way where phones were carrier specific. While we had SIM cards, they had some kind of built-in chip that was specific to their carrier.
- sp332 4y agoIt's a combination of a technical requirement, and only officially supporting that required feature in certain firmwares. I have a phone model that is slightly different from the one on the approved list but it works OK. Not everyone got so lucky. My Galaxy Note 8 supports VoLTE, but AT&T won't provision it and I don't really know why. My guess was that it would take extra work and they doesn't feel like doing it.
- bgro 4y agoIt's a combination of money
- wil421 4y agoThe phone likely uses 3g to do voice calls and AT&T ended their support for 3G earlier this year.