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This is for the carrier side of the equation. Even if a carrier uses only one vendor for all their cell tower RAN equipment, they would need to support whatever
by kiwijamo 3y ago
This is for the carrier side of the equation. Even if a carrier uses only one vendor for all their cell tower RAN equipment, they would need to support whatever phones end-users use e.g. Samsung/Apple/etc. It's more like Netflix deciding they'll use Apache on x86 for all their web servers but still accepting standard HTTP connections from Firefox/Safari/Edge/Chrome/etc on x86/ARM/etc as user agents. This is more sensible than you portray and is common in other industries so not sure why OP would think mobile networks are an exception to this rule.