Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone (right now)

[Kenny Lussier]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Kyle Smith <askreet at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's LTE only, that's part of their "future phone" strategy.  I believe LTE
> only works on Verizon and AT&T these days (others?).

LTE is used on all major networks - VzW, AT&T, T-Mo, and Sprint. Also,
Sprint was just bought out and the new company has said that they plan
to extend their LTE network beyond AT&T and catch up to VzW over the
next year with a $16B investment in LTE rollout alone.

But LTE is the data network, not the telephony network. VzW is still a
CDMA network, AT&T and T-Mo are still GSM, and Sprint is still
PCS/GSM. So, unless the phone is data-only, and uses no telephony
protocol, it needs to have a CDMA, TDMA, GSM/UMTS, or PCS radio.

-KL