Hi there,
I noticed that the Kompakt doesn’t support Band 28 (based on the Kickstarter “Global Optimized” supported band image). Band 28 is used heavily in Australia and that’s stopping me from backing the device.
Are there plans to add additional bands?
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How did you find out what bands work in Australia? I was confused by how they were written out on the Kickstarter as I thought our bands usually looked like “700/800/900” etc – I just crossed my fingers when I backed it originally 
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haha! There are a few sites that list them, such as Ausdroid and Wikipedia. I’ve just had phones from Asia that don’t support band 28 and they were usable, but the signal wasn’t great and I dropped a fair amount of calls.
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Welcome to the Forum @lancerabbit ! 
I checked with our team and it turns out that, based on our research so far, we shouldn’t experience any coverage issues in Australia despite the lack of B28.
However, we will conduct tests before shipping the devices and will inform you of the results. If it turns out that the coverage is inadequate, you will, of course, have the option to request a refund before shipment.
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Hey @lancerabbit and @grilledcheesebb , I’m also in Aus!
I also find the difference in tech speak confusing.
I found the info about bands on the network providers websites. They use pretty severe speech and I wonder how much of it is true and how much is marketing, especially regarding the necessity of B28 supported devices. As such I’m very curious to see what Mudita’s testing will discover…
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I wonder why the LP3 includes this band if it’s not required (even though most telcos use it). In the old days, when I had a phone missing Band 28, it would drop down to 3G in certain areas where Band 28 was used. I wonder what will happen now since 3G is shut down for all networks here.
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@aleksander Just on the topic of phones working in Australia – with these kinds of custom phones I know that some only work with certain networks – for example the Light Phone 2 only works on Optus (our two primary networks here are Optus and Telstra). Might be worth looking into and specifying for Aus customers as some parts of the country (like where I am! Are pretty much Optus-only coverage whereas other places can be Telstra-only, etc).
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I hope Australian operators can have more European bands, that would solve the thing with many phones being unusable, not other way around.
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Me too, I feel like we’re being pushed in a certain direction by the telecos here and don’t really like it much at all.
@grilledcheesebb Great idea!
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