Adapting them would be a major investment so I don't think oil companies are very hot on the idea either.
LTE is the 4G successor of HSPA+ so you're not really getting anything state of the art up there in the north. It's more like a squeezed 3.5G lemon
Verizon is advertising 8-12 average speed. LTE is in theory capable of doing 150Mbs
What would you do with a GSM based iPhone in Korea ?
So it doesn't matter how smart/stupid you are. Once you're infected you're screwed.
It's quite contagious also
Internally it's known as "bluewashing" and it's not done until the acquired product runs on their mainframes and it's translated into swahili.
"The medium is the massage." -- Crazy Nigel