Is T-Mobile asking OEMs to remove Band 12 support?

[raino]

Raino do you really think T-Mobile has the power to approve or grant Motorola a FCC certification for VoLTE with E911?

No, but they do have the power to not require voLTE on band 12 phones, don't they? And the power to build lower network towers, the power to pay for roaming calls...

But they've chosen to limit BYOD instead.

 

[UDPGuy]

No, but they do have the power to not require voLTE on band 12 phones, don't they? And the power to build lower network towers, the power to pay for roaming calls...

But they've chosen to limit BYOD instead.

Do you not understand that without volte the phone will not be able to make phone calls or call 911? Thus breaking the rules set by the FCC? The issue lies where T-Mobile only has band 12, and nothing else to fall back on.

Posted via Nexus 6 with unlimited international data via AT&T

 

[Shilohcane]

No, but they do have the power to not require voLTE on band 12 phones, don't they? And the power to build lower network towers, the power to pay for roaming calls...

But they've chosen to limit BYOD instead.

The entire mobile network industry is clearly making a transition from circuit switched voice of UMTS to IP voice with VoLTE. T-Mobile is just doing it faster and better than the other networks. T-Mobile sells phones as cheap as the LG Leon for $49 that does SUPPORT both band 12 and VoLTE.

T-Mobile is moving to a 100% LTE network as fast as they can to provide the rising demand for data that has been predicted to go up 500% over the next few years. T-Mobile still allows sub-standard phones on their network without VoLTE but Federal law forces T-Mobile to follow E911 laws which Moto's E/G would not complies with unless Band 12 was disabled.

If Motorola can't keep up with the rest of the phone manufactures with VoLTE then they don't need to stay in business. Every new emerging technology requires new phones for customer but T-Mobile still hasn't banned Moto's E/G phones on their network that works good and are 100% compliant with federal E911 law with Band 12 disabled.

Really you are wasting your time trying to use this extremely minor issue to trash T-Mobile since everyone can see that T-Mobile is clearly moving into the future with superiority technology of VoLTE faster than the other networks that are lagging behind. It must be very frustrating for you to see T-Mobile quarter after quarter year after year being the fastest growing cell network in the nation. However, not supporting Moto E/G with band 12 which is illegal isn't going to get many people to drop T-Mobile. Keep throwing out your straw-man but T-Mobile is winning.

 

[Ry]

Closing this up since the discussion can't be done in a civil manner.