Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au> wrote:
In a way, it is amazing that international 3G phones work so well. Somehow governments from around the world managed to agree on 4 standard set of frequencies.
I don't know to what extent it was a matter of agreement, and to what extent it was just good luck in regard to the availability of spectrum.
Maybe one day something will be similar for 4G, will believe it when it happens.
Indeed so. Ultimately, however, the GSM frequencies should migrate to LTE (note that LTE supports both voice and data - it's used only for IP data at the moment).
And of course the whole NSA set of problems is something else to
consider. Perhaps we need to switch over to Firefox Mobile OS. Android has it's problems as does iOS ... need I say more?
It will be really interesting to see what happens with Firefox Mobile OS.
And Ubuntu Touch as well. Neither of these has any accessibility options (no braille or speech support), whereas Android does. Frankly, for my own personal use, I don't much care about the "NSA problem". I'm not going to use mobile phones and mobile carriers for anything confidential - I'd use ZRTP over a SIP connection from a Linux host instead.