“Next month sales will surely continue to rise as Apple starts selling the iPhone on the Verizon network,” Bilton reports. “But if Apple wants to fend off the iPhone’s rivals, will it have to sell its signature mobile device on other networks as well?”
Bilton reports, “Some analysts say yes.”
Full article here.
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the limit is the number of iPhones they can make, not the number of carriers.
simple.
Because four is better than two!
T-Mobile – yes. Sprint – never.
Sprint would be out of business right now if they hadn’t merged a few years back. I know some employees of Sprint and they say it is the most disorganized company on the planet.
Don’t bring iPhone to T-Mobile… Yet!
I like Tmo’s “4G” commercials. Want to see that cute girl in a few more!
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It would appear from observing other iPhone country markets, that this was always the strategy; proliferate iPhone and iOS eco-system far and wide.
My prediction: iPhone 5 everywhere..
Sprint has the best reception (and customer service) in my area. Verizon the worst- and totally out of the question as far as my wife is concerned.
Apple is trying to leverage the best negotiating position with each carrier. Being exclusive with AT&T gave Apple a lot of leverage and a portable built up ecosystem. When Apple has more iPhone strength from Verizon, they will play the remaining carriers against each other for it.
I’m waiting for iPhone to come to T-Mobile. I hate Verizon, kinda iffy with AT&T, had Nextel/sprint 6 years ago & it was trash & the customer service was terrible
Had T-Mobile since 2006 & they have been great to me. Great Customer Service, coverage has done well for me overall & the great price.
The second iPhone comes to T-Mobile is the day I upgrade to it.
Cubert – Sprint would be out of business right now if they hadn’t merged a few years back. I know some employees of Sprint and they say it is the most disorganized company on the planet.
Quite the opposite: The Nextel buyout ruined Sprint, which is why they were looking to sell that network and are now shutting it down.
Some analysts say yes. Other analysts say no. Some say nothing at all. For the most part, we don’t care because most analysts don’t know jack about Apple or its products.
Sprint is too risky at the moment. They are not seeing subscriber growth and will bleed customers to the Verizon iPhone. Sprint needs the iPhone more than Apple needs Sprint.
T-Mobile should be a pretty low barrier since Apple already does business with them in Europe.
I like journalists and editors who don’t hide behind punctuation marks on the headings. Practicing this age old rule/adage would actually force them to use less conjectures and employ more well thought-out contents that facilitate with answers.
/rant
Everybody seems to be talking about how some carrier has horrible customer service, the other has great, etc. I can’t possibly see why is this of any importance or relevance. I have been with my carrier for the past 6 years (AT&T). The only time I called Customer Service was when I reach the point in my contract (about 15-18 months into it) when I become eligible for a free new phone, and I need to unlock that new phone. I call, they e-mail me the instructions, call is over in 10 minutes and the next time I speak to the customer service is a year and a half later.
Do other people talk to Customer Service every week or so, for this to be of such importance? Wouldn’t cheap rates and better coverage be significantly more important?
I see the iPhone going to T Moblie before it goes to Sprint because all Apple has to do is add another band 1700MHz. Sprint uses CDMA which isn’t the problem it’s that Sprint is using WiMax as their 4G. I don’t know if Apple is going to make a WiMax iPhone since most of the world is going to be using LTE.
@SamLowry has it right. Do you think anyone at Apple looks at the kind of metrics being discussed in the article? Apple doesn’t care about market share any more than it cares about “winning the war” against other manufacturers. As a long time shareholder I am perfectly happy with Apple selling every iOS device that Tim Cook can squeeze out of the supply chain!
T-Mobile is just about a foregone conclusion; Sprint has other technical issues, really whether Apple wants to add another phone type to the production line.
The only true limiting factor is supply. If Apple can’t meet demand for ATT and Verizon, then any expansion to additional carriers won’t matter.
The better question is: When will Apple permit the iPhone to be SIM-carded with ANY carrier in the world, like most other phones.
@Sarasota,
I’m just going by what my friends tell me. They said that Sprint was probably less than a year from bankruptcy at the time of that deal. They had even suspended payments to their subcontractors and cancelled many projects.
iPhone cant be sim carded easily. You need server-side apps for Visual voice mail and a few other things.
Its the only phone that really is a mini-computer, iPod and phone.
The rest can be easily sold because they are simple pieces of junk.
Including the much-fabled Android.
Android – soon to be called the all-new Oracle™ phone!
I would love to have at least a 3rd party because Verizon and AT&T prices are so identical. T-Mobile pricing will force the AT&T and Verizon to review their offering. Eg. T-Mobile provides high speed free tethering, how cool is that!!!
I am an AT&T right, contract ready to renew in June and would jump to iphone-5 on T-Mobile given the choice.
Ref. the t-mobile commercial: I believe it is designed ready for when they start carrying iPhone when they will offer FaceTime everywhere.
“Wang…He added, “Verizon will provide fertile ground to gain new iPhone customers, but if Apple feels Android is gaining on other networks then they may start to look at other subscribers to compete there too.””
FO. Anytime someone says this sorta thing “Apple feels XXX is gaining on other networks” or wherever, it shows they do not get/understand Apple at a very fundamental level. Apple never is about “market share”, “competing with XX”, or “someone is gaining on them”.
Apple tries to make the very best product possible. Apple makes a product that they would want to use. Other people like these products also. Customers buy the products because they want them, not because Apple needs more market share, Apple needs to compete, Apple needs to stay ahead.
What rubbish.
I wonder if Mr. S. Jobs is on the internet more, now a days.
when everyone gets LTE on their network… Then Apple wont have to go through the hassle of building 3 different phones…
hopefully, iPhone 5 will house world phone type abilities to play on AT&T and T-Mobile when the REAL 4G happens…
iPhones quickly became available without a fuss on all sorts of carriers here in the UK.
So what’s your problem, America?
I’m still waiting for MagicJack to get the iPhone