[rcarmo]

I think this is an uninformed knee-jerk reaction. Eben has been very public about the supply chain issues, the prioritization of small companies that rely on shipping stock to keep afloat and how mainstream stock will be replenished (it is already possible to buy Pis again—I have an RSS feed for rpilocator and the number of updates increases daily).

Vodafone is doing the Vodafone thing and pushing out a _prototype_ that just happens to have a Pi managing a $400 RF board. I worked there for 11 years and have seen this thing time and again (I was a product manager for broadband and CPEs, and remember the Linksys WRT54g-3G, a bunch of Sagem and Huawei mini base stations, etc.). You are completely misinterpreting the reach of such a prototype, no matter what the marketroids spun around it.

It’s Mobile World Congress week, so the telco distortion field is at its yearly zenith.