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Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone (www.theregister.com)
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[–] 77 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Anyone want to bet Cellular Providers will start blocking or tack on additional network fees for non-Apple/Google phones?

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Support for a device on each cellular provider isn't automatic. There is are certification and approval steps that cost them money upfront.

    Charging fees is unlikely to recuperate their network engineer costs so from a consumer perspective it'll look like blocking but that's not the reality. It's that the device wouldn't be in their supported device list.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Fine. Wifi calling is good enough for me. VoIP never went away

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Wifi calling still routes the call through your carrier.

    Or do you mean using voip services that operate independently of a carrier? The problem with those is that many services block voip numbers due to the rampant abuse by bots and scammers. As an example, I would not be able to sign up for my medical portal or any of my billing sevices as well as others(I tried to register with a voip number to protect the cell number I've used for decades).

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