Great read - makes a lot of sense.
thurrott.com/mobile/windows-phone/6746/your-fear-of-limited-lumia-availability-is-misplaced
thurrott.com/mobile/windows-phone/6746/your-fear-of-limited-lumia-availability-is-misplaced
Actually the radios are universal, and do support CDMA. Unfortunately, the CDMA side takes a "blessing" from the specific carriers that still use it world wide. So MS turned off the CDMA just to avoid the nightmare of getting the "blessings". Also once you go down that road of the official blessings, then you go back to a phone that is controlled by that carrier, which can stop updates, support, whenever they want.The phones don't have universal radios.
JAPAN there are no windows phone/8.1 or whatever....Great read - makes a lot of sense.
thurrott.com/mobile/windows-phone/6746/your-fear-of-limited-lumia-availability-is-misplaced