More than a decade after launching in Europe, the Netherlands company is now selling its repairable phones in the US, starting with the Fairphone (Gen 6+).
So they designed a phone for the US audience only to leave out 33% of the US audience by not supporting Verizon towers… do they want to fucking fail here??
Verizon is very protective over their network and always has been. They used CDMA for years just to lock out outside competition amongst other walled garden bullshit. When they moved to GSM they still tried to lock their network to a whitelist of phone IMEIs they control. They do not want you to buy an unlocked phone from a brand they do not get paid by to be put on the whitelist support.
So they designed a phone for the US audience only to leave out 33% of the US audience by not supporting Verizon towers… do they want to fucking fail here??
Verizon is very protective over their network and always has been. They used CDMA for years just to lock out outside competition amongst other walled garden bullshit. When they moved to GSM they still tried to lock their network to a whitelist of phone IMEIs they control. They do not want you to buy an unlocked phone from a brand they do not
get paid by to be put on the whitelistsupport.God I hate Verizon. I’m never touching their fucking service lol
AT&T started using a whitelist too at some point. T-Mobile is the last major carrier left to not care what phone you use.
Its a bribe? I wasnt aware of that. That fucking sucks.
Concur. But gotta look at the frequencies, there is a chance most Verizon /visible freqs are supported