This guy had a good take on it all
The end result is that basically if you want to get a handset you know will work, the average consumerβs only real choice is to buy from the network. At their prices. Funny how things work out.
Iβm in America on Verizon and mine just randomly stopped working today and occasionally fucked up for hours. I have an s23u
TBH, LTE certification always seemed like a way to force carrier locked phones to me.
Which makes it massively more difficult to switch.
IE vendor lock in.
Telcos encouraging users to shift their voice to Whatsapp nowβ¦
All if the examples of blocking appear to be from Optus in the article. And anecdotally they seem to have been the most heavy handed with this. So while there might be further blocking over time on the other networks, Iβd start by switching to the Vodafone or Telstra networks if you end up blocked by Optus.
iirc itβs all because of legislation that all 3 telcos have to adhere to so theyβll all do the same shit, also Telstra uses a shitty proprietary voip implementation so things like lineageos might not work
This is true, but the way the telcos have been implementing it is different (even if the specifics of that remain unclear).
I expect some blacklisted devices will become whitelisted in the future on the various networks (and vice-versa). The whole thing has been poorly communicated and rather opaque.
