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This is so sick! How'd you manage to get the specs for CDMA? Did you reverse engineer?

As far as electric goes, that's a nice thought but the reality is prices will not go down in such a scenario. I'd rather my bill go to subsidizing rural areas than to pure profit. Nevermind there are benefits helpful to rural areas that grid service can provide versus solar+battery.

The "uses others solutions" bit is for satellite alone when it comes to Tusass. They own and run all other types of telecom service in Greenland whether fiber, cellular, microwave, or marine radio.

Of course. People are never genuine in their interest or preference of things. It's always about status, wealth, and their standing among their peers. /s

God y'all need to have some hobbies.

>If a network theoretically prioritized phone calls

This already exists and is an example of a good use of priority. Cellular networks offer Voice over LTE and this is inherently prioritized over all other network traffic. This is done specifically for E911 but also implements special settings so calls can continue to go through even when coverage is very poor (and where VoIP apps would start to fail).

This is correct. Slicing can offer significant performance gains in certain situations. For example, lower latency when certain users need it while not overburdening the network by having to give that to every user.

The full title says: "Building the first highway segment in the U.S. that can charge electric vehicles big and small as they drive"

It's obviously about more than just freight trucks even if that's their initial intention for the project.

It never ceases to amaze me the lengths we will go to overcomplicate transportation just so everyone has to continue to buy and maintain their own vehicle.

Yes this exactly. If I'm not allowed to talk about the health effects of car infrastructure (because apparently that's "feelings") then let's just talk about money.

Cars are horrendously over-subsidized and are FAR more expensive to maintain infrastructure for in exchange for moving way fewer people. Trains might not cover their costs with fare but they move a hell of a lot more people while simultaneously being underinvested in, in the US.

Maybe consider that a car is just an expensive thing to own? Why should costs stop at cost-of-ownership when cars affect the lives of more than just their owners?

> the only relevant server implementation

That's not true. Mavenir offers an RCS platform that T-Mobile has been using up until recently. A renewed interest in RCS due to Apple supporting it might end up with their platform being more sellable.

https://www.lightreading.com/mobile-core/mavenir-t-mobile-co...

It just isn't at all. It's still on-air in the US and much of Europe not to mention huge countries like India (where it is still heavily used) and China plus many African countries.

There are only so many partners for cellular basebands in Android phones realistically. Qualcomm, MediaTek, and Samsung make up the vast majority of that market. Google already cooperates with them for other work I'm sure. No reason they wouldn't want to implement this.

Where'd you hear that?

Verizon Pixels have issues with BOOTLOADER unlocks. Not carrier unlocks. In fact, Verizon is legally obligated to unlock their devices even regardless of installment plan financing due to rules the FCC has in place on their wireless spectrum.

Well yeah. The carrier's job is not to sell devices. It's to sell the services that they provide. If you don't want that, you have to buy unlocked from the manufacturer and finance another way.

I wouldn't call it misleading at all. The terms are laid out that you have to subscribe. Carriers won't sell you a phone outright in their stores without it being activated on a new account. Believe me I've asked.

What are you trying to say here though? The money is more important than people being rehabilitated?

Not everything scales well. Sometimes you just have to spend to fix.

This type of perma-locking was only an issue for iPads with Apple SIM as I recall. Not the GSMA eSIM technology that is used in devices now.

No carrier in the US charges for an unlock. So long as a device is paid off in full, all 3 carriers will unlock devices for free.

Because the purpose is coverage improvement without investing in cell sites. Individual cell sites are massively expensive. Deploying one thing in space that covers the same area plus way more is far less expensive.

It's worth noting that this service is a "good enough" solution at the moment - SMS/app-based text messaging, maybe voice calls, and very limited data. As wireless standards continue to evolve, it'll become more helpful for modern use cases.

Do you have any good sources of reading for the eSIM standard with regards to this?

Projects like Ukama make it look easy to issue your own eSIMs but I don't understand whether it's something they provide as a service to their users through a central authority or if it's actually a proper roll-your-own system.

There are other stacks that implement TDD-LTE. Could be possible with OpenAirInterface though I'm not sure if it's ever been successfully tried.

Why all the handwringing on this exactly? This data is necessary for product improvements. Seeing it in aggregate improves troubleshooting and tuning to specific operator's networks as well as end-to-end performance analysis.

If the list of data in this article wasn't exposed by Qualcomm, then it's exposed in other ways like via SS7 in certain scenarios or to the OS and apps. Granted, app permissions are at least a user choice but we all know how that works these days. At least Qualcomm's using it to improve their product and not just harvesting for advertisers.

Also, like others have said, this is a shallow blogspam article trying to sell a "secure" phone. Ick.

This isn't about technological autonomy. OP signed up for wireless service that is specifically sold as Hotspot WiFi-first. That's one of its main features. It's sold as that very, very clearly. If you don't want their WiFi, go get service from another provider!

I invite the WiFi Alliance to participate more in 3GPP meetings and straighten out the standard for handover between LTE/5G and Passpoint WiFi networks then.

(Gonna assume you have a cable MVNO still)

Yes. You signed up for a cable provider mobile service. A huge part of their whole value proposition for their service is "get access to millions of cable WiFi hotspots!" That's their product. They plaster it everywhere in all their ads.

Your situation with Pi-hole and firewalls etc. is a niche use case. Their service is made to appeal to people who are 1) cable company customers and 2) want cheaper service. The majority of people who fall into those categories have an Xfinity router at home that broadcasts the Passpoint SSID. The phones connect to that SSID and have service. Passpoint is going to be more secure than any WPA2/3 network anyway.

If you don't want that to happen, then get a different mobile provider. This one is not for you.

>Do you not see the problem with all of my families devices “preferring” a neighbors network over mine?

I have T-Mobile. T-Mobile maintains agreements for Passpoint networks at random places like airports, T-Mobile stores, or (I recently found out) Home Depot. These networks are encrypted and authorized against a RADIUS server.

My SIM has them programmed into it. I can't just stand up the "t-mobile" or "Passpoint Secure" SSID from my home network and my phone automatically connects to it. That's not how it works.

Based on the fact that your devices are showing preference, I'm gonna take a wild guess and say you have Xfinity/Spectrum/Optimum Mobile. The cable co. MVNOs maintain their own WiFi networks which are (again) connected to via Passpoint and authorized using RADIUS. However, the cable company WiFi networks extend far into neighborhoods and are broadcast from CPEs. Your devices prefer them because that's part of the network you signed up for.

Just VPN back to your home network if you're not confident in their security.

This has been around for a while now and is not some new eSIM thing. It's existed with physical SIMs too. It's Passpoint access authorized via your SIM. Your device won't just randomly connect to anything with the same SSID. It has to auth via the SIM and it's on secure networks that your carrier has agreements with. Same as the access you get over the LTE or 5G network.

It depends on the MVNO. Some have their own backends. Others only do the marketing and leave the backend to the carrier.

MVNOs do not roam on the carrier, however. The MVNO has a close direct relationship for wholesale access to the network. Roaming is a wholly separate method of access.

I had something similar happen to my account as well. I can't bid in any auctions on eBay though I can do Buy It Now. The restriction came out of nowhere and has been on my account for years with no explanation.

With all the incumbent users lower than 600 MHz, I don't know how realistic that is. They've already been pushed out of 600/700/800 MHz. Those pushed out won't want to invest in another move.