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Did what I could - a single ballot... Talking with some folks out here in SoCal - they're like why as Cali is already a given for a particular party/candidate... Response - it's th…

Gosh, this is almost a replay of LightSquared (Ligado) and the GPS band/guard-bands - one has to consider the public good. FWIW - Ligado and NextNav - yes, Reston, VA - must be som…

It should fail soft - e.g. warn user that Private Relay is not available, but don't block connectivity. This really isn't a client side issue, but the work-around is to disable the…

The carrier can ID the device type by the radio layer itself at the PHY layer.

SERO was one of the Sprint Rate Plans, the other was the Pioneer Plan for early adopters on SprintPCS HTC got into a bit of trouble with the carriers on the whole IMEI/MEID rewrite…

Gosh, yes it's a bit of a mess... The PSAP (E911 end point) likely will receive an MDN/MSISDN (10 digit number you dial for NANP networks) - this is so they can call back if the ca…

I don't recommend mucking about with the IMEI, as you risk a collision with another device that is already using that IMEI - IMEI's are supposed to be immutable. I realize that the…

Interesting thread - as someone that used to be in carrier space... IMEI - we only really cared about the TAC prefix, as this identifies the device type, which is mapped to capabil…

It was interesting - I was pulled into a startup by a friend, and I was the first full-time employee - he joined later, and we were peers - he headed up HW and I led the SW and arc…