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by p_l 830 days ago
It grew out of many countries licensing the specific devices at national/trans-national level, not telco level.

Though there were throwbacks, like early iPhone, with special tariffs, but those were 95% for business reasons not explained to end buyer and 5% for marking the terminal in network as "the one that is slightly out of spec and remember to special case call redirection"