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Hello all,
I'd like to add the licenses and their references to the following Unix commands in Wikidata: List of Unix commands. The current status of the inserted (but not always referenced) licenses can be seen on my (german) talk subpage: de:Benutzer:Hundsrose/Wikidata Spielwiese. Is there a general approach to find them online and reference them afterwards in Wikidata, maybe with the alias (Unix) as example?
Many thanks for your help.
Best regards --Hundsrose (talk) 12:32, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
If a smartphone doesn't include 700mhz (band 17) when a carrier says it should. Would LTE still work anyway if the frequency is higher, lets say 850mhz.Ajax-x86 (talk) 15:44, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
If your phone doesn't support the band then it doesn't support the band. It doesn't matter what other bands it supports and what their frequency is. (As noted in the LTE frequency bands articles, some bands share at least part of the same frequencies. For example a phone which supports 1 and 3 is not guaranteed to support 4.) It is sometimes possible to enable unsupported bands when they are actually supported by the hardware but this is rare, complicated and depends on the specific phone and may also violate local law or similar.
If the carrier also uses other bands which the phone does support, then it will work in those areas those bands are available, but it won't work in areas where the only band is the one which isn't supported and of course it also won't be able to use the unsupported band where both are available. (So coverage may be poorer or suddenly drop out, and speeds may be reduced.)
I don't understand what you mean by "carrier says it should". If the carrier sold you the phone and told you it supports a band but it doesn't then in many developed countries and even a number of developing ones this would come under some form of false marketing and you're probably entitled to either return the phone for a refund or have the carrier fix the defect although you we can't give you legal advice on that here.
If your carrier says you need a certain band to use your network my earlier comment applies. The carrier saying you need the band means they likely won't offer any support for coverage or speed problems but it will work where and how it works in areas where other bands may be available that are supported. (And assuming it's not an LTE only network, for any non LTE bands and networks the phone and carrier use.) Precisely how well, you'll need to find out how important that band is in their coverage. Although bear in mind networks are always changing, and especially with next generation networks coming in they may switch which bands they are using. So even if it works fine in most areas that matter to you now, it doesn't mean it will 1 year from now. Especially if support for that band has always been required and offered in all phones the carrier has official supported or sold.