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When the Wall Street Journal came out with the speculation that the iPhone 5 would feature 4G LTE, this was largely a non-news as virtually everyone expects LTE to happen in the iPhone 5 as 1/users demand it 2/ wireless carriers want LTE phones, period. The more interesting bit from WSJ was that LTE would work outside of the US market, which is unusual for LTE phones: most fall back to HSPA+ in Europe and elsewhere.

This happens because unlike HSPA+ and 3G, the radio bands (frequencies) used for 4G LTE are very different from one country (or one carrier) to the next. Even in the USA, LTE is not interoperable from one carrier to the next.

This did not prevent a “global” iPhone 5 4G LTE support rumor to spread on the web. Of course, iPhone 5 users who are heavy travelers rejoiced right away. Those who had a prospect to resell the phone globally did so as well (prices are much higher in markets where the phone is not officially available). (more…)

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