patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to Howard Beale
Re: Apple will Stay with AT&T until LTE is Widespread said by Howard Beale :
Apple almost has no choice but to stick with AT&T, until LTE is a widely deployed technology. Apple takes advantage of scale manufacturing, and since GSM is the standard worldwide, their only other option in the U.S. is T-Mobile.
And with TM iPhone would have much less customers due to poor coverage. TM has 33 million, ATT has 80 million, cell customers. TM claims 238 million covered in 2006. 282 million for ATT »www.dbrs.com/issuer/6374/at-t-mo···y-ii-llc . The 282 million probably doesn't include ATT Centennial or ATT Alltel customers. Unless TM USA goes on a massive building spree, it won't match ATT anytime soon. Plus an iPhone for TM USA would be a custom build anyways because of TM USA's AWS/1700 3G. |
