Comment by bsder
4 years ago
The limitation to making niche phones are the stupid, sclerotic, CARRIERS--not the manufacturers. It's the carrier gatekeeping that prevents niche phones from forming.
We need a ruling like from back in the Bell System era where you are allowed to bring customer equipment to the network without the network owner permission.
You don’t need a network owners permission for GSM/LTE. The only time you needed that was for CDMA.
You need one for VoLTE (so any voice calls), 5G and Wifi calling.
Without carrier phone whitelist, you won't be able to call on AT&T and many other networks.