If suing Apple, what about carrier stranglehold on phones?

Say you want to get an unlocked phone that is not an iPhone. Unless it's one of four or five brands, good luck.

Where I live, you can get an iPhone or Galaxy through Cspire. Doesn't even offer the Pixel 8's.

My carrier is Xfinity Mobile. iPhone, Galaxy, Motorola, and Google. THat's it.

You go to ATT, Samsung, Motorola, Google, and Sonim

Verizon, pretty much the same.

T Mobile: Probably the broadest offering of phones.

Now, I am not talking about the carrier offering of phones although that is what I posted above. I am talking about the whitelisting of phones.

There are great phones out there. Oneplus 12, Oneplus 12R, Nothing Phone, Asus ROG, and others. However, good luck as most of them are not whitelisted by the carriers so if you don't buy one of the select group, even unlocked off Amazon or Best Buy, you won't be using it as it won't be able to connect to a network. Indeed, Carl Pei of Nothing Phone, formerly Oneplus CEO, said the carriers are the main reason the American market is so different and why consumers have limited choices for phones here.


SO if the feds are going to this trouble for Apple, what about the carriers?