Talk:United States/@comment-87.179.96.189-20160207232050/@comment-24682153-20160208134826

Hallo Ingo. Great database. I'm sorry can't help you with that either. More than a year ago someone asked the same question on the forum of the leading manufacturer see here. 13 months later, there is still no LTE router on the market for both sides of the Atlantic. I mean, there are >30 frequencies employed for LTE worldwide, but for the US and Europe it comes down to a dozen. I hope the operators will make pressure, that some Chinese mobile micro-company will just combine existing models. How can you offer "global roaming solutions" with a WiFi router, if there is not a single device carrying US and European bands at the same time? Up to now, they mostly stay away from 4G/LTE - but this is 2016.

Actually Huawei sells its E5372s hotspot in an US (22) and European (32) version. The same with the E5377s (605 and 32). Both carry all bands you need for either side. So it's not a license problem. I couldn't find out whether they use different hardware (chipsets) or if you can change frequency bands by flashing the software. Sometimes only bands are blocked in mobile devices by software. Anyway, I'm sure they will come up with a "worldwide" device soon.

Jams said that US providers are now very liberal about tethering. But they don't want you to use their data-only plans on a smartphone. Here in Europe it's just the other way round: e.g. Vodafone still forbids and sometimes blocks tethering in most countries, some providers (like Three UK) even sniff through packet inspection, that you don't use their "smartphone plan" on a modem or for tethering. So here we have another mismatch.

Btw. I'm not happy with our Network compatibility chapter. It's the only article I don't really care about as Admin. I just wrote an introduction, that's all. Problem is that users post their phone specs only, but often the same model is sold regionally in very different versions. I think that phone spec sites (like yours and GSM arena) are much better with it. For data, we are the (only) database for prepaid cards. But for phones, there are much better resources on the net. What should I do with it, any idea of how to edit? Do you want to take care of it?