Article DetailsCould we be seeing the end of AT&T and iPhone exclusivity? |
| Date Added: November 13, 2009 05:00:00 PM |
| Author: Jennifer McClelland |
| Category: Shopping: Telecommunication |
| I mentioned that Verizon was putting out with ads that are directly targeted toward the iPhone through equally the Droid commercials that present Android based devices as well as the there is a map for that commercials. Well, I suppose that Verizon certainly does not want to burn down its bridges with Apple. Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg claimed that he (and Verizon) are still attracted in buying the iPhone.
He said, This is a result that is entirely in Apples court. Obviously we would be interested if they thought it would make sense for them to have us as a colleague. Next year, contracts concerning Apples iPhone and AT&T Wireless is believed to be coming to a close. Apple does have the right to increase the contracts, but in my opinion, the corporation could make more with the handset if it were on other carriers. The only difficulty I see is that everyone will have an iPhone and other businesses like Palm will be gravely harmed for the reason that consumers who have not wanted to hop on the AT&T bandwagon wont have to any longer to buy the iPhone. Then yet again, not everybody wants an iPhone. It makes you speculate what the terms were in the first place for AT&T to get the complete rights to the iPhone. I am aware that Apple was interested in the carrier for the reason that not like Verizon, it ran on GSM which makes it easy to produce one kind of telephone for the whole world. There aren’t any carriers that run on the CDMA carriers outside the United States and the only chief businesses that do here are Verizon and Sprint. Only time will tell what will occur with the iPhone and other carriers. I would deduce that it won’t shift over to Sprint or Verizon until the companies have implemented their 4G service (which Sprint is working on quite energetically). |
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