| Not all carriers.... Pass the apple test. If iPhone was on vz, would i go to vz from att.... hell no never ever. Sprint? NO. I am 110% satisfied with att & have been with them 4 years & plan to stay with them till it make sense to move on. I'd like to see smaller carriers deal with the data traffic.
Honestly, if apple sold to everyone, it would be a CR nightmare, and how would apple keep up with demand? Apple does not make 68 dollar phones, they make the iPhone. I don't think the model would work unless you had a flagship launch partner, like att. Att soaking up phone costs to increase customer base is hardly anti-competitive. Can you imagine the nightmare of some craigslist or ebay folk thinking they got a GSM phone when it ended up being CDMA?
I think apple has done a good job, not perfect, but good at making the iPhone a success. If other carriers were to get them, you'd need a carrier brand marking to be sure of what network it will work on. It just opens a can of worms/Pandora's box. I can see apple having 1 or 2 other partners in the future in combo with att, but i think people need to realize the price that att is paying to bring these to the masses.
I hear people say oh this carrier sucks, that carrier sucks. Guess what, it's both device, and location centric. What works here on the east coast for att will not wotk on the saturated cingular network out west. When att wireless was folded into cingular, they got both cingular and att towers on the east coast, out in the west it's different. The ground infrastructure, towers, intra-tower and tower-backbone lines are not nearly as robust or built up out west compared to the east coast. Where i live, VZ and alltel share towers, sprint and boost share the small number of sprint towers. ATT towers host t-mobile in this area, so bandwidth and data per hour capacity is not some issue here. Out west t-mobile has their own towers, and cigular towers were never numerous, spaced closely enough, or hooked up enough to backbone fiber to get the job done without issue.
I would love to see att's iphone specific traffic vs their other traffic, compare it to other carriers market by market. I think you will see how much att has invested in the east coast. The main issues are out west, and need to be taken care of vs focusing all their money on their half assed response to FIOS. ATT is at a disadvantage out west, if they fix it i see better data rates and less lag time soon, all it takes is some transponders on towers, and some additional cables connecting to backbone, and perhaps additional backbone capacity here and there.
It's a lot like rail transportation. It could be amazing and great for this country once again, but some serious improvements, investments, and a social consciousness for it to be a priority before it happens. All you need is time and money. Be patient. 
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