Which doesn’t help because you still need a CDMA capable phone. That automatically means you both have fewer choices of phone on the network and most of the phones you get don’t work on GSM networks.
That also means it downgrades to a much slower network than GSM.
You shouldn't need a CDMA phone for an LTE network, unless it doesnt support VoLTE, which Sprint uses.
Fallback to 2G/3G networks in areas without LTE is another issue though.
"CDMA" isn't slower than "GSM". That being said, those terms are very ambiguous. For example, the GSM (2G) group also came up with the UMTS (3G) standard, which uses W-CDMA. So, most "GSM" carriers were using a variant of CDMA a decade ago. Traditional "CDMA" carriers also saw improvements with CDMA2000 (aka 1xEVDO) and other enhancements.
Comcast's Xfinity Mobile allows non-CDMA iPhones on its network (through Verizon). They will only connect to Verizon's LTE network and is unable to access its CDMA network.
scarface74|6 years ago
That also means it downgrades to a much slower network than GSM.
ac29|6 years ago
Fallback to 2G/3G networks in areas without LTE is another issue though.
"CDMA" isn't slower than "GSM". That being said, those terms are very ambiguous. For example, the GSM (2G) group also came up with the UMTS (3G) standard, which uses W-CDMA. So, most "GSM" carriers were using a variant of CDMA a decade ago. Traditional "CDMA" carriers also saw improvements with CDMA2000 (aka 1xEVDO) and other enhancements.
djchen|6 years ago
I suspect Boost could do the same.