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A friendly reminder that isps do NOT care about you or your digital rights. Always best to buy directly from the OEM rather than from the telecommunications (unless you can't afford it). Do proper research before buying a phone!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Welcome to capitalism...

For a long time VZW used separate tech. That required a different antenna/software. Hence special phones.

And still has some frequency bands not offered on international phones. But it is mostly about control.