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greattypo
on March 20, 2011
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AT&T to Acquire T-Mobile USA for $39 Billion
Imagine if Apple had tried to get their iPhone AppStore arrangement in a single-GSM carrier world?
Apple still had to choose between Verizon or AT&T. From what I've heard, Sprint, T-Mobile, etc. were never in the running.
jedbrown
on March 20, 2011
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Verizon was not a GSM carrier.
greattypo
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I'm aware. The point is that they were still only negotiating with a single GSM carrier.
jedbrown
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Using CDMA in the US and GSM in the rest of the world would mean different hardware. Were they ever seriously considering that?
greattypo
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Yes, in fact, they approached Verizon about the iPhone before AT&T.
uxp
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And one of the results of that talk was that it would not be beneficial to manufacture two handset models, so they walked away to look at the bigger picture.
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