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Deutsche Telekom CEO: Lack of iPhone hurting T-Mobile USA

InvisibleSHIELD.  Scratch Proof your iPhone 4!“Deutsche Telekom’s CEO Rene Obermann directly blamed the absence of the iPhone for the poor performance of T-Mobile USA,” Electronista reports.

“The carrier gained just 137,000 new subscribers in the summer, pushed mostly by prepaid users and not smartphones, leading Obermann to suggest that the absence of Apple was a factor,” Electronista reports. “Network quality was important but didn’t matter if the right devices weren’t present, he said. ‘Consumers like T-Mobile but they also want to have the iPhone,’ Obermann said during a call discussing the carrier’s international results.”

Electronista reports, “Although most rumors have pointed to a Verizon iPhone arriving early in 2011, T-Mobile has been occasionally identified as getting a model of its own as well.”

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