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FCC Eyes Making Carriers Unlock All Phones Within 60 Days Of Purchase
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This is still a thing in the US?
Canada abolished that crap years ago... Phones are sold unlocked, and any remaining locked phones are required to be unlocked free of charge just by asking the Carrier.
It's been a number of years since I last regularly worked in cell phone repair, but some models of phones were physically made in different varieties with different antennas for different networks.
It wasn't even possible to 'unlock' those phones for other networks, short of replacing the logic board and antennas.
Allowing root access for Android phones free of charge is a start
And the finish line..?
Like, install antennas to connect to any network...
Phones are also small computers, and while its wireless chipset may only be compatible with certain carriers, that doesn't mean that I shouldn't be allowed to install whatever I want on it.
Try a Galaxy S5..
Antennas are proprietary to different networks.
The antenna isn't chipset agnostic? TIL. I normally work with radio transmitters for LoRa and Bluetooth where the antenna is just a wire connected to a radio chipset module so I assumed 4g/5g were the same
Yeah, I don't think there are many models of phones with proprietary antennas, but there are, or at least were a couple models.