@Professor_Piddles@sh.itjust.works
2026-04-15 00:37 UTC
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@partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2026-04-15 03:07
> My phone at the time worked fine on 4G for over a year, but suddenly one day it no longer worked once they started enforcing this. I suspect the carrier wanted to collect a troll toll from phone manufacturers to allow them the privilege to sell a phone to their customers Its certainly possible that they're trying to extract a toll from handset manufacturers, but I could also see it being a spectrum consolidation. Can I ask if your OnePlus 5T was a model specifically made for the USA market or was it imported from China or Indian markets? I've seen non-domestic model phones not contain all the same radios as North American phones. So while its possible there were a few specific bands overlapping that allowed it to work, those bands could have been deprovisioned from phone service or sold off to other companies wanting to buy spectrum.
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@shads@lemy.lol 2026-04-15 00:49
Look we have had some issues with emergency service "000" calls not going through and there are some tenuous connections to devices purchased offshore. Not discounting that. However we have had more and worse problems due to lack of investment in maintenance by the Telcos and we haven't banned Telco C Suites yet. So... Yeah the game was rigged from the start. Knowing people who have worked near that level I know how little they actually DO. We could afford as a society to be without them.