Should be interesting to see what happens to Cingular under it’s new AT&T masters. I can see AT&T’s board demanding that all it’s hardware providers lock-step with M$’s new DRM. Which should make Apple’s iPhone and Motorola’s iTunes compatible phones persona-non-grata at AT&T (like they already are at Verizon). If it does happen, maybe Apple will rethink it’s idiotic exclusive arrangements and open up the iPhone to other providers (which would be good for me, as there is no Cingular in my county and Edge Wireless is the only GSM provider).

Exclusivity only strengthens the carrier’s hand and does absolutely nothing for the consumer (and no, visual voice mail means nothing to me).