What is meant by Band 20 (800DD)

[adamtemp64]

On the apple lte spec sheet http://www.apple.com/iphone/LTE/ it says on all references to Band 20 (800DD) and not (800MHZ)

The DD has confused people and many have speculated that it will not work with O2 Band 20(800MHZ)

The DD is reference to the European wide Digital Dividend  the turning off and auction of the 800MHZ analogue TV spectrum http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/delivering-digital-dividend

It appears that apple are yet to verify the o2 band 20 lte spectrum hence no o2 on the page above.

Apple verify all 4g lte networks before allowing the iphone to use the network and a small carrier file patch will be issued to enable o2 4g. This was discussed on the o2 blog (article now removed). http://www.macrumors.com/2012/11/30/apple-must-approve-carrier-lte-networks-before-allowing-iphone-5...

I hope that clears up this issue

[Anonymous]

Thank you for this post Adam.

Hopefully a lot of confused people on this subject will now underrtand.

[Toby]

Thank you for the informative post Adam, feel free to direct people to this post if they have a related question.

Cheers, Toby

[Anonymous]

I knew something was fishy when O2 wasn't listed on the LTE page.

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:
I knew something was fishy when O2 wasn't listed on the LTE page.

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No conspiracy theories just a matter of all the info catching up.

[aldaweb]

Does that mean that a sim-free iPhone would still need a carrier patch to operate on O2? or another carrier for that matter?

[Anonymous]

The facility is there but needs activating which I believe would be both on 02 supplied and apple supplied units.

02 are not allowed to put any bloat ware on apples iPhones. Any update pushed out by apple circumvents 02 and hits iTunes or ota update.

[Anonymous]

does that mean if i get it on o2, i can use a Japanese sim card in it and use LTE?
as they are on the 20 (800 DD) band as well i think

Dave

[adamtemp64]

only when o2 unlock it for other networks and apple approve the japanese network (assuming network locked)

[Anonymous]

Hi mate,
thanks for the reply. and thank you for the information

Dave