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Originally Posted by tso View Post
quick guess is that nokia uses radios that have their frequencies set in hardware, and as such need to burn thru the existing stock of non-t-mobile chips before deploying ones that also work on t-mobile.

this based on t-mobile only recently getting its UTMS frequencies, iirc.
Actually, that's not correct. The frequencies they are tuned to and the frequencies they support via the chip are two whole different things. The frequency range is controlled by the chip's IOS. The specific frequencies it transmits on are controlled by software on the device they're installed in. The rest is semantics.
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