Librem 5: Choosing a variant for Gemalto PLS8 modem

[deedend]

That’s a great news! I really hope they find a way to squeeze those frequencies in!

[Larry]

It doesn’t mean that I live in the outback, or the desert: outside the big cities (Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, etc.) and the small country town (let’s say 20k people?) the main frequency used is B28 - > 700MHz. Without that you are really disadvantaged, because most of the time you probably end on 3G… Even if you live in a city and move often outside, you can have big problems without that bloody band

An alternative modem applicable to central south QLD and the rest of Australia would be really nice. Band 28 is important, but I’d just like to say I get visits from people who have iphones and xiaomi devices that don’t have band 28 which work perfectly well here and they get 4G connections. I also wonder about ACMA compliances: C-tick, A-tick and RCM? I don’t expect a push for the Australian market, but I’ll keep a hopeful eye on this in the long term.

[deedend]

It is extremely important indeed… Probably your friends are fine with a broken connection and coverage, that’s understandable, but in my personal experience, me and my wife have a xiaomi phone, mine is a global version (with Band 28) and my wife’s not. It’s literally a nightmare, she always complain about the reception of her phone.