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Jerry A The jaded part of me thinks that's because they were both selling those models at the beginning of 2015.
T-Mobile officially dropped the Z10 and Q10 from their lineup before the kill-switch cutoff date.
There was no legal requirement to update those phones, yet Verizon chose to, and AT&T chose to. The Classics on all three carriers needed to be updated, because they were being sold as of 7/1/15. The older phones were not.
But even if there is a "beginning of 2015" requirement, TMO hasn't updated their Galaxy S4 or S3 with their corresponding "kill switch" Android updates. The S3 may not have a manufacturing update available, but the S4 certainly does (Android 5.1,) and both were being sold by TMO post-7/1. The S3 is still being sold.
So either TMO doesn't give a **** about laws, or doesn't give a **** about customers, unless it can force planned obsolescence upon them and get them to upgrade (on their 24 month EIP, of course.) You pick.
Re: WFC (and voLTE too,) since BB10 integrates it into the OS, it's an OS-level feature, not device-specific. So TMO could choose to "test" it on the Classic and then white list that build internally for WFC across all three devices. But I don't think they're going to do that.