https://archive.ph/wGrlM

> It powers the baseband processors found in most leading smartphones, including every iPhone since generation 12 except iPhone 16e and all Snapdragon-based devices.

Utterly unbelievable that no Western government has tackled that situation. The market for basebands is completely and utterly rotten:

- Qualcomm dominates the industry and can get away with pretty much all sorts of behavior

- Samsung has their own basebands but only uses them on their premium phones

- Huawei has basebands but IIRC they're only used in data sticks and the likes, and on top of that Huawei is subject to sanctions so it's even more unlikely to see them in a major phone sold in Western markets.

- Mediatek covers the rest of the market, especially the low end.

That this lack of competition disincentivizes all actors from making investments into code quality and security is obvious to anyone who has ever looked even a bit into the phone BSP side - it's hard to imagine the baseband binary blob is any different.

Another problem is that it's a highly difficult market to enter. Pure 2G and 5G implementations exist in Osmocom, but they're practically useless in a consumer environment and anything in between is locked hard behind extremely complex standards on one side, regulatory enforcement in the middle and finally patents. Even Apple hasn't managed to kick Qualcomm and Broadcom to the curb where they belong.

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I don't think the American small business owners are interested in making bullshit. What you need to do is fully destroy the middle class until you've got an air gapped lower class bent to your will building human doggy beds.