Taking down the cell network

The distinction between application and baseband processor can be hazy these days as virtualization is used to make one physical processor appear as these two processors. The benefit stated in the trade press is cost saving though it reminds me a bit of the "Win modems" of yesteryear where the PC did the DSP work.

I don't know what solution is used in this particular cell phone but rooting a physical processor at the lowest level can be different from rooting the application processor.

A modern cell phone is loaded with more or less specific processors of various kinds handling baseband, Bluetooth, USB, sound, Zigbee, GPS, WLAN and who knows what more. This means virtualisation can be quite attractive. I guess that can make rooting harder. And it could impact the baseband functionality.