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God I wish my network in Canada still supported Fairphones. My last Fairphone just stopped connecting to cellular service one day, which I probably should have expected given it's European bands only.
i'm in the opposite situation as you; i buy foreign phones at 1/10 the price of "american" phones but with all of the features.
a few months ago, american carriers started blacklisting chinese chipsets from their networks and now i can no longer be sure that a phone works in the united states unless i buy it from an american brand like apple or samsung; which also means that i have to pay a lot more if i want the same features that the $1200 iphone has.
Similar thing has happened in Australia, we turned off 3G and some of the Chinese branded phones could no longer make emergency calls, so phones must now be white listed to work in Aus and not all phones work on all carrierswhich makes it even more confusing.. There's an obvious conflict with the carriers (of which we have 3) are the ones white listing.
Lot of unhappy tourists as well. I had considered a FF6 but assume it wont work in Aus