Although normally a mobile operator tests a phone before selling it and decides if that device is compatible with its network, it seems that Apple choose to do things a little different. The company independently tested the networks LTE 4G of the operators who are going to market terminals iPhone 5 and decided alone whether the terminals will work on those networks or not. The operators would have known about these made by Apple and it seems that only those whose networks have been tested and approved by Apple can promote iPhone 5 as a device compatible with 4G LTE networks.
Apple is not allowing mobile operators to offer the iPhone 5 as an LTE device unless they pass the Californian vendor's own, independent tests for LTE network performance, Swisscom has confirmed. Telecoms.com was told of Apple's policy in October but, at the time, no operator had conceded publicly that it was true. This week, however, a Swisscom spokesperson told Telecoms.com that: "Apple only enables 4G access after testing their device on an operator's live network."
The attitude of those from Apple is completely different from the way the industry has worked until now, the company not wanting to promote the iPhone 5 as an LTE terminal except on the networks that meet its standards. Basically, the iPhone 5s in our country should not work on any 4G LTE network until Apple updates iOS and allows this. The situation should be the same in other countries where 4G LTE networks were publicly launched after the iPhone 5.
The way Apple thinks about things is disturbing for many operators, but the terminal is so popular that they have no other solution but to listen to Apple, at least for the moment.
