Re: [luv-talk] Unlocked android phones with LTE support

Rick Moen wrote:

Quoting Trent W. Buck (trentbuck@gmail.com):

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The only reason I can think of that a cellphone's transceiver couldn't do the same thing, is 1) the FCC are scared of consumers using (pre-built) programmable transceivers to "shoot down planes and stuff"; and 2) it'd cost the hardware vendor an extra twenty cents per unit.

[...] So, in short, it's less FCC being scared than the industry self-censoring and bullshitting the open source community. [...]

Thanks for the correction; it rings a bell; I misremembered above.