Comment by kalleboo
3 days ago
It's not even the mobile carrier that has a say, it's just Google. If Google doesn't sell the phone in a country, they just disallow the feature for everyone, instead of just allowing it as long as the carrier supports it. The carrier doesn't mind (if they did, they'd block by IMEI and the workaround wouldn't have worked)
That sounds like a regulation thing, that Google must follow. I doubt Google wants to implement complicated region blocking code.