> What Mexican incident? [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/samsung/comments/16pgliq/samsung_blocking_importedinternational_phones_in/ https://www.reddit.com/r/samsu

> What Mexican incident? [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/samsung/comments/16pgliq/samsung_blocking_importedinternational_phones_in/ https://www.reddit.com/r/samsung/comments/16pgliq/samsung_bl... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln4rsxWq3WM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln4rsxWq3WM [2] https://www.silicon.co.uk/mobility/smartphones/mexico-orders-samsung-motorola-to-stop-remotely-disabling-phones-535595 https://www.silicon.co.uk/mobility/smartphones/mexico-orders... [3] https://linustechtips.com/topic/1537307-android-phones-disabled-remotly-in-mexico/ https://linustechtips.com/topic/1537307-android-phones-disab... They tried to stop "illegally imported devices" from working, but basically killed/bricked all devices that were sold privately as well as all international phones that were e.g. used by tourists or visa workers. But now the cat is out of the bag, Samsung having a remote administrative toolkit implemented on all of its Galaxy devices (at least). Samsung was not the only vendor that did this. Motorola, Oppo and ZTE did that, too.