Post #2819639

2026-05-24 23:20 UTC

I find it a bit sad that Ice have seemingly stopped doing 450MHz LTE in Norway. Probably because no modern client devices support those bands and I reckon they were tired of having to get custom LTE routers all the time. LTE at 450MHz might not have been particularly fast, but the coverage it provided was honestly pretty insane.

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@quad@akko.quad.moe 2026-05-24 23:27

Also known as Band 31. It used to be Ice's main selling point back when they only did mobile broadband, because they took over the NMT450 network and converted it to 3G, then later 4G. However it was mostly useless when they started doing mobile service, since afaik absolutely zero mobile phones do Band 31. And now that they migrated to 5G, they seem to have left 450MHz behind, and they now provide a regular Nokia mobile broadband router, which doesn't support that band at all. I assume they either couldn't find a manufacturer willing to customize a 5G router to support 450MHz, or they couldn't be bothered to. Makes sense that phones don't support it though, even if a manufacturer bothered, the required antenna size would probably be impractical for most modern phones.

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