LTE is a protocol/standard with more efficient methodology/tech right? -- my main issue was the involvement that certain agencies have with the basebands put into mobile phones and the resistance that people trying to develop completely open-source basebands encounter.
LTE doesn't seem like a solution to this problem, it sounds like just a more efficient baseband. Even if it's easier to reverse engineer, use of it might still be outlawed (as is an issue with the neo9000).
Does LTE use some publicly accessible/modifiable spectrum that I don't know about or something?
LTE, when compared to 3G, drops a lot of complexity and basically defines a data link for IP to flow in. Telephony services are then implemented via IP.
Of course the transmission itself is still as proprietary and filled with regulations as all GSM standards; I just noted that it should be easier to somehow "sandbox" the communication via LTE now than with older technologies.
It's still not the solution and I'm fully aware of it.
LTE doesn't seem like a solution to this problem, it sounds like just a more efficient baseband. Even if it's easier to reverse engineer, use of it might still be outlawed (as is an issue with the neo9000).
Does LTE use some publicly accessible/modifiable spectrum that I don't know about or something?