PolarBear
The bear formerly known as aaron8301
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This is typical of most companies. When new technology comes out, it starts costing too much to support old technology. Sometimes some customers get screwed because they don't want to or can't upgrade (OnStar, anyone?), but it's collateral damage.
In this case, however, I think it's premature. There's simply too many EDGE users out there and too little 3G coverage for them to start phasing EDGE out. I understand that if they migrate more users to the 3G network, they can further deploy it, but as Karl said, "...there's still a lot of traditional 2G/EDGE customers under long-term contract out there (including first gen iPhone, RAZR and Blackberry users)..."
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