@Wadepen wrote:
Is there any plan on making this phone compatable?
@Wadepen based on this question, I think you've misunderstood how phone compatibility works. What makes a phone compatible with a given network is whether or not they share the same radio frequencies. The phone is manufacturered in such a way that it supports a certain set of radio frequencies. Some manufacturers offer multiple "variations" or sub-models of a model, intended for different markets (North America, Asia, Europe, etc) which contain the frequencies most commonly used in those regions, and either partial or no support for networks in other regions. Other manufacturers may only produce a single variant of some models, and if they happen to be targetting a different region than you're trying to use it in, you're likely to have a poor experience or no signal at all. This sounds like the situation you're in.
The network operators purchase spectrum (ranges of frequencies they are allowed to utilize) from the government of the country they operate in. They purchase these (typically at auctions, and for large amounts of money), and then purchase and set up the network equipment to utilize those frequencies. This isn't something that they can typically just fire up additional frequenies to support requested devices like yours--they are constrained as to what freq's they can use, and even if they wanted and were allowed to add others, it costs a LOT of money to add that to their nation-wide networks.
The point of this is that your request isn't something that PM could reasonably accomodate, even if they felt compelled to do so. Unfortunately, you need to select devices that are compatible with the network, or a network that's compatible with your chosen device; however, in the latter case, most network operators within a region utilize similar frequencies, with some exceptions. One of those is that people in Canada can fall back to Roger's ancient 2G GSM network today, and support for thier GSM frequencies are baked into just about every device sold in the past 20 years or so, right up to today. However, Rogers is sunsetting that network at the end of this year, so this isn't really a viable long-term solution I'd suggest today.
You would be better off selling your Xone (ideally to someone overseas, in whatever it's intended market is) and selecting a device that offers at a minimum 850MHz and 1900MHz W-CDMA/UMTS/HSPDA 3G network frequencies, and would be compatible with all the major Canadian providers and their flanker networks.
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