Re: My Dinner With Marc Andreessen

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On 6 Jul 2024 13:00:23 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

Ahh, except that the spec included SIM Locking, with which all that
compatiblity can be made irrelevent for a user with a network-locked
phone:

 
All the jurisdictions I'm aware of had consumer-protection regulators who
saw to it that unlocking a locked phone was available at a reasonable
charge. Basically, customers got a discount off buying a SIM-locked phone
(compared to an unlocked one), and they had to repay some part of that
discount when it was unlocked, depending on how long before this was done.
 
Compare this to the US system, where there was no option to unlock the
SIM, because there was no SIM.

As I also mentioned there's still the problem with different
phone networks using different frequency bands, and phones only
supporting the bands of one network. That was a common issue with
3G phone networks in Australia, though the bands used for 4G are
more consistent between networks and therefore all of the used 4G
bands are supported by most/all of the locally-sold phones.

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