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How are network carriers still so critical when choosing a phone in the USA? Seems to be a unique situation compared to other markets (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was reading a bit about different phones, and one point that comes up a lot from USA commenters is that people cannot just use any phone they want, it needs to be a specific model supporting their network carrier, especially the network bands.

I live in Europe, this is pretty unknown here, and from what I gather, Asian buyers are also free to use any phone they want.

How come that nothing has ever been made to improve that situation?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Interesting, so that person was probably incorrectly informed!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

They may not be wrong, his phone is about a year or two old so things could have changed since then.

But that said it doesn't make any sense outside of the VOLTE thing or some other feature that some carrier requires.