T1 Modem Variant Works in Librem 5

[johan-bjareholt]

@JR-Fi

To put it bluntly: One has better coverage while the other is not made in China.

Not sure if it’s that simple since BroadMobi does not officially support VoLTE while Gemalto does (and some regions are planning to drop support for non-VoLTE calls). See the following thread.

Question whether the Librem 5 can work on T-Mobile's network with AweSIM

@todd-weaver, @Kyle_Rankin, @nicole.faerber, @dos: I got into a debate with the peanut gallery on r/Purism about AweSIM. In one of my responses, I cited an article stating that T-Mobile is no longer allowing activation of non-VoLTE phones after Aug 4, 2020 and will stop allowing any non-VoLTE phones to use its network after January 2021. However, I assumed that these restrictions wouldn’t apply to T-Mobile’s MVNOs like AweSIM and I cited a Ting representative saying that it will still be possi…