2009-07-05
post/135929378
Marco.org: AT&T’s massive iPhone blunder
I suspect Marco’s right. Unfortunately for him, as this well-thought-out post on TidBITs argues, AT&T probably has a lock on the American iPhone contract, simply because there’s no other national GSM provider. (I’d thought T-Mobile was, but that article says they use a slightly funky spectrum band and have even smaller 3G coverage.) Anyway, if T-Mobile, one of the world’s bigger telcos, can’t build a decent GSM network, who will?
So no other telco will save you. Perhaps Apple will build a CDMA phone, but to add all that engineering complexity just for US, just the year or two until LTE is deployed, and just to spite AT&T seems unlikely.
Maybe he should consider a move to a country where there are five competing GMS providers, meaning there’s 80% (by population) 3G coverage and the start of rollout of 7.2Mbps HDSPA? Just a friendly suggestion.
