I don't follow. Are you saying that US Cellular shouldn't have a choice in whether it sells the iPhone? It's a CDMA-based network so unless you can get a baseband flash it's not going to work like with an unlocked GSM-based device.
The carrier should just sell a device agnostic phone service. The carrier has the right select which phones they bundle with their own plans. But if a customer can't bring their own phone to the service (whichever phone they choose) then the system is broken. Apple didn't build a universal world phone just to solve supply chain issues. They see this as as big a problem as any in the industry.
The carrier should just sell a device agnostic phone service. The carrier has the right select which phones they bundle with their own plans. But if a customer can't bring their own phone to the service (whichever phone they choose) then the system is broken. Apple didn't build a universal world phone just to solve supply chain issues. They see this as as big a problem as any in the industry.
The iPhone 4S being the most "world mode" phone still won't help unless we're talking about an unlocked device using a GSM-based network. This just shows how archaic CDMA is and how much the carriers really have over the vendors of CDMA networks.
The iPhone 4S being the most "world mode" phone still won't help unless we're talking about an unlocked device using a GSM-based network. This just shows how archaic CDMA is and how much the carriers really have over the vendors of CDMA networks.
Then it's time to ditch CDMA! it seems like nothing of value is lost when you do that.
Then it's time to ditch CDMA! it seems like nothing of value is lost when you do that.
LTE uses SIM cards, so once the morons get it together and finalize the LTE voice spec, Verizon can move to LTE exclusively, shut off their CDMA, and be modern.
LTE uses SIM cards, so once the morons get it together and finalize the LTE voice spec, Verizon can move to LTE exclusively, shut off their CDMA, and be modern.
Sprint, on the other hand…
Once LTE overs their entire network it'll still be a food decade before CDMA will eligible to be turned off. Even now UMTS '3G' networks still have GSM '2G' enabled. On top of that, LTE still has no provision for a voice channel so that will have to be added or carriers will have to enable VoIP to support voice calls. No matter how you slice it CDMA and GSM '2G' will be around for a long, long time. Just look at how long before AMPS was deprecated.
Let's not sell the #1 phone in the world because they were to stupid and cheap. Sold out pre-orders in 10 minutes in Hong Kong. Apple has the best smart phone on the market, why would they contract it to be cheap when they know U.S. Cellular would get twice the money back in 2 year contracts. Obviously the CEO didn't use his brain. U.S. Cellular will lose out to Sprint, Verizon and AT&T when there customers find out they can't get an iPhone.
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I don't follow. Are you saying that US Cellular shouldn't have a choice in whether it sells the iPhone? It's a CDMA-based network so unless you can get a baseband flash it's not going to work like with an unlocked GSM-based device.
The carrier should just sell a device agnostic phone service. The carrier has the right select which phones they bundle with their own plans. But if a customer can't bring their own phone to the service (whichever phone they choose) then the system is broken. Apple didn't build a universal world phone just to solve supply chain issues. They see this as as big a problem as any in the industry.
The carrier should just sell a device agnostic phone service. The carrier has the right select which phones they bundle with their own plans. But if a customer can't bring their own phone to the service (whichever phone they choose) then the system is broken. Apple didn't build a universal world phone just to solve supply chain issues. They see this as as big a problem as any in the industry.
The iPhone 4S being the most "world mode" phone still won't help unless we're talking about an unlocked device using a GSM-based network. This just shows how archaic CDMA is and how much the carriers really have over the vendors of CDMA networks.
The iPhone 4S being the most "world mode" phone still won't help unless we're talking about an unlocked device using a GSM-based network. This just shows how archaic CDMA is and how much the carriers really have over the vendors of CDMA networks.
Then it's time to ditch CDMA! it seems like nothing of value is lost when you do that.
Then it's time to ditch CDMA! it seems like nothing of value is lost when you do that.
LTE uses SIM cards, so once the morons get it together and finalize the LTE voice spec, Verizon can move to LTE exclusively, shut off their CDMA, and be modern.
Sprint, on the other hand?
LTE uses SIM cards, so once the morons get it together and finalize the LTE voice spec, Verizon can move to LTE exclusively, shut off their CDMA, and be modern.
Sprint, on the other hand…
Once LTE overs their entire network it'll still be a food decade before CDMA will eligible to be turned off. Even now UMTS '3G' networks still have GSM '2G' enabled. On top of that, LTE still has no provision for a voice channel so that will have to be added or carriers will have to enable VoIP to support voice calls. No matter how you slice it CDMA and GSM '2G' will be around for a long, long time. Just look at how long before AMPS was deprecated.