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Manufacturers make this more complex to manage for providers... they could release one universel firmware like apple is doing for their iPhone... but no one (except Google with their Pixel phones) is doing it on the Android side.
Sadly Videotron cannot support every single Android devices... this would require manually flashing the device or get the manufacture to build a custom firmware that would work with videotron network for your device... this is simply not feasible.
I guess at some point in the future whenVoLTE is more common... all devices will be compatible... but we are not there yet.
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I guess at some point in the future whenVoLTE is more common... all devices will be compatible... but we are not there yet.
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