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It has everything to do with supported bands.

Most often, international phones in practice only have the bands to support AT&T, and nobody else. Maybe it could support T-Mobile, but they rarely do in practice.

The US996 LG V20 can support AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless for service. It doesn't support Sprint, but after my experience with them and their service (or more appropriately, lack thereof), I am in no hurry to ever consider them again.

Depressingly, most phones that do have dual-SIM support also rarely ever support any of the bands that any of the US carriers use. Which is such a load of garbage IMO, because I would love to have the ability to swap providers in such an ultra-lazy fashion.
 
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