“Verizon Wireless, the country’s largest wireless carrier, is confident enough in its network that it will offer unlimited data-use plans when it starts selling the iPhone around the end of this month, a person familiar with the matter said,” Ante and Kane report. “Such plans would provide a key means of distinguishing its service from rival AT&T Inc., which limits how much Internet data such as videos and photos its customers may use each month.”
Ante and Kane report, “AT&T has struggled to overcome complaints about network quality ever since it started exclusively selling the iPhone in the U.S. in 2007. That contributed to a decision last summer to offer new iPhone and other smartphone customers only pricing plans that cap how much data they send and receive… Verizon more than any other U.S. carrier has built its reputation on its network quality, and any stumble in handling iPhone traffic will call into question Verizon’s major selling point. On the other hand, if it does handle the iPhone well, then AT&T will have a harder time arguing it didn’t mismanage its own network.
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MacDailyNews Take: AT&T Mobility. Reaping billions upon billions of iPhone users’ dollars while maintaining a consistent level of suck.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Joe Architect” for the heads up.]