Ericson is a big player as are a lot of the carriers and there are some major 
Chinese providers of equipment now that I believe are involved.  ALU of course 
is another.

>From what I’ve read the proposals are a mix of highly dense micro cells in 
>high population areas and more widely carrying services like LTE for the more 
>distant coverage.  There’s also work with LTE in non licensed space like 2.4 
>and 5 GHZ where it interoperates with WiFi.

So honestly, 5G will probably be ratified just before 6G starts rolling out.:)

As to Mike’s comments, absolutely correct but for anyone who wants to do more 
research here’s a little bit of a technical wrapper.  The US carriers called 
HSPA+ 4G and some carriers like T-Mobile have extended HSPA+ to it’s maximums 
of 42 megabits or so but the rest of the world as Mike correctly said calls 
this at best 3.5 G and at worse, seriously weak sauce.:)  LTE is true 4G and 
recently I’ve read of live broadcasts T-Mobile have done of gigabit over LTE.  
Like physical phone lines it’s possible to bond LTE carriers and get more 
throughput to the network over multiple channels.


> On Apr 13, 2016, at 4:42 AM, Simon Fogarty <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> And Scott,
> 
> Do you have any idea when that will be?
> 
> I would have thought Nokia would have had a hand in it's dev but they don't 
> really exist anymore in the mobile world.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: Unlocked Phones
> 
> that’s until 5G is ratified right?
> 
> :)
> 
>> On Apr 12, 2016, at 10:10 AM, Mike Arrigo <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> That's good to know, I think eventually the CDMA networks will be phased out 
>> and it will all be GSM lte which is a good thing since that's what the rest 
>> of the world is using.
>> Original message:
>>> Mike, this was true last century.:)  Actually a little more recent
>>> than that but is no longer the case, sort of.:)
>> 
>>> First, yes, you can most definitely buy an unlocked iPhone from Apple 
>>> directly for example and slap a Verizon SIM in the phone and join the 
>>> network no problem.  Is this officially supported, not exactly but Verizon 
>>> runs a pretty open network so phones should join and auto provision 
>>> including LTE.  This is actually the part of the VZ network I worked on.  
>>> The LTE channel now supports voice so your calls route over the data 
>>> channel and use GSM just like the rest of the world now.:)  Verizon gives 
>>> you some other interesting features like video over the voice channel and 
>>> of course now that it’s all GSM / LTE you can browse and talk on the same 
>>> device at the same time.
>>>       Sprint it’s been my experience could accept other phones but locks 
>>> their network to the phones they sell.  I have been told though I believe 
>>> on this list and as well on the eyes free list that you can now insert a 
>>> Sprint SIM in to an unlocked phone and it ill join their network.  I don’t 
>>> know about their frequency usage other than they are doing a carrier 
>>> aggregated thing similar to T-Mobile across more than one band.  One of the 
>>> good things about the 6S is it has the same radio chip across the product 
>>> line so you get a wide amount of support in one handset.  It’s a true world 
>>> phone.
>> 
>>> Hope that helps.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>>> On Apr 11, 2016, at 7:51 PM, Mike Arrigo <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>>> With unlocked iphones, you can definitely choose at&t or t-mobile, with 
>>>> verizon and sprint it's a bit more interesting, unless this has changed, 
>>>> you need to have the model of iphone designed for these two carriers.
>>>>> On Apr 11, 2016, at 5:52 PM, E.T. <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>>>> Scott G, you probably can answer this easily. I am on a family plan now 
>>>>> but may need to go on my own. If I buy an unlocked iPhone (likely the 6s) 
>>>>> from any source, any capacity, can I choose any plan from any carrier 
>>>>> (likely Verizon)? Reason I ask is I just looked at their site and did not 
>>>>> see any 6s models, just the plus.
>> 
>>>>> I should probably go to a local store and at least look at the different 
>>>>> models and compare sizes. Could ask about plans too while there.
>> 
>>>>> From E.T.'s Keyboard...
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>>>>> true?
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