Analyst Says Apple iPhone to be Available with All US Carriers in 18 Months
The days when you could only get an Apple iPhone if you locked into a two-year contract with AT&T are nearing an end, much to the joy of consumers across the United States. An analyst said today that the iPhone should be available through all US carriers within 18-months.
A report in BusinessWeek cites Tim Horan, a telecommunications analyst at Oppenhiemer & Co. Horan said:
“We believe AT&T’s iPhone exclusivity arrangement with Apple will be expiring by mid-2010. For wireless carriers, customers are demanding the device and they need to remain competitive.”
He believes that "T-Mobile USA Inc. will get the phone this summer, followed by Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp. in the fall, and Clearwire Corp."
Horan is also expecting that with the iPhone being available through more carriers, that iPhone sales will increase by 15 million to 25 million units annually. AT&T is expecting to see an announcement of the end of its exclusive contract, which may come as soon as Wednesday.
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T-Mobile only covers 8% of the country with 3G.
If you live, work, or drive-through the other 92% of the country... you have *NO* 3G coverage of any kind.
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T-Mobile is the easiest because AT&T and T-Mobile are both GSM carriers. T-Mobile is the iPhone carrier of choice in Germany so it would probably just require an unlock procedure and software upload of some sort.
I would love to see the iPhone on Sprint or Verizon (not that I would leave Sprint to get the iPhone). We would really see what the iPhone can do on a network with great data coverage.
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