Comments on: AT&T desperately wants to hold onto iPhone exclusivity

By: Cyber Akuma

Cyber Akuma — Wed, 06 May 2009 03:29:32 +0000

“ATT broadband is not keeping up with iPhone bandwidth demand”

Kind of a funny thing to say far a device that started out with no 3G version when pretty much every phone made 2 years before it was released came with 3G standard.

By: Par Longjohns

Par Longjohns — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:32:12 +0000

Techcrunch desperately needs to investigate the fact that ATT broadband is not keeping up with iPhone bandwidth demand and all ATT broadband users, including DSL households, are being negatively impacted because of all the rush hour iPhone use. The internet is broken and ATT did it because these monopolies can’t do anything but sit on their hands and consult their frigging lawyers.

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By: Ryan S

Ryan S — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:37:51 +0000

interesting article…to bad they couldn’t match the photo with the most recent phone though…3G has been out for how long now???

By: Cyber Akuma

Cyber Akuma — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:36:47 +0000

I would become rather happy if ATNT lost exclusitivity.

Not because I want an iPhone or anything, but because I am tired of ATT bending-over-backwards to satisfy Apple’s every whim and wish just to keep selling the damn things. Apple is forcing them to put restrictions and make exceptions that they do not put on any other phone, biggest one being you are not allowed to unlock it even though they allow you to unlock any other phone they carry.

By: Edison Calle

Edison Calle — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:22:01 +0000

ATT has to drop off the price if this happens :)

By: foxmajik

foxmajik — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:46:19 +0000

It’s not just the iPhone that has problems in new york, it’s lots of other devices as well and it’s mostly due to a network of rogue multifreq signal jammers being hidden in sewer grates, insides of mail boxes and other sneaky places. These bad boys cost less than fifty bucks, can go for two weeks on two AA lithium batteries and jam all known cell phone freqs in a six block radius.

By: Art Studio MJ

Art Studio MJ — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:27:48 +0000

iPhone is very beautiful phone

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By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:55:54 +0000

Verizon needs a mentality change that is for sure. Apple will certainly stay with ATT but developing a phone for Verizon’s technology is not difficult. It adds to Apples manufacturing complexity but they can handle it.

Clearly an iPhone on Verizon would double Apples USA market share. That is hard to fight against.

By: AlexNC

AlexNC — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:33:37 +0000

The surprising thing is that the biggest carrier, Verizon, is the last company left that does not have a big name phone. They are slolwly digging their own grave. ATT=iPhone … Tmobile=Gphone … Sprint=Pre … Verizon=proprietary software. While they are fine now, the younger generations that are now getting older (imagine that), buying their own phones, are going to skip Verizon if they don’t get something decent soon.

By: Nate

Nate — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:21:16 +0000

True, CDMA is a dead end.

However, Verizon is CDMA, and they’re the carrier with the most subscribers, in the country where the iPhone is most popular.

By giving CDMA the cold shoulder, Apple is ignoring more than half of the wireless market in the US. There’s way too much money to be made on CDMA, in the states, for Apple to ignore it for long.

Besides, Verizon does have a huge 3G network, and they have designs on going even bigger for 4G. If you’re manufacturing kick ass multimedia phones, Verizon’s network will be the place to be, down the road.

By: thebonafortuna

thebonafortuna — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:13:51 +0000

I hear the call quality of the iPhone is garbage anyways, regardless of *where* you are – but cannot attest to this myself. All I can say is I’ve had AT&t/Cingular/at&t for a long, long time – I’m in NYC about twice a month – and my call quality has always been great and have never been on street level and not gotten a signal. You should try their network with a phone that’s not the iPhone, maybe it would be a better experience? GSM is pretty widely recognized as being a higher quality signal over CDMA, so I’ve got to wonder if its the phone.

As for the iPhone moving to Verizon, that’s an interesting question. On the one hand, there are the costs associated with developing an all new technology for CDMA. I could argue its cost prohibitive with little chance for future growth, since the United States is basically the only country in the world with a CDMA network. But I think South Korea or Taiwan actually uses CDMA as well, so maybe there is more upside there than people realize.

The other argument is battery life, and from what I’m told the battery life on the iPhone is abysmal. The iPhone would certainly get better battery performance on a CDMA network, which is definitely an upside. But I’m forced to wonder if Apple wouldn’t handicap that advantage – they probably don’t want the iPhone competing with the iPhone.