AT&T has been an average partner for Apple. It’s true that the company took a chance on iPhone and negotiated with Apple to have the rights to offer iPhone till 2010, but the quality of service offered to iPhone owners has been anything but satisfactory. There are a lot of  iPhone owners who believe they can get a better wireless service with other carriers such as Verizon. We won’t know for certain what percentage of these people are willing to back their word up unless Apple offers iPhone through Verizon.

Many experts believe that Verizon have better capabilities to handle a revolutionary device such as the iPhone. But as CNN reported in its story, Verizon may not be that much better than AT&T when it comes to handling the load that a device such as the iPhone will put on its network:

Unfortunately for AT&T, when it comes to network quality, perception is reality and right now Verizon has a more positive public perception, … If AT&T can continue to show improvement in network throughput, it may blunt some of the impact.

AT&T has learned its lessons the hard way. The future is mobile, and AT&T’s network was not prepared to handle it. The company can address this issue by investing more in its infrastructure and learn from its experience with iPhone. That’s no guarantee that AT&T’s service will get better, but at least the company has something to work with.

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One would wonder if the issues that Apple is experiencing is due to the plans put forth by O2! I always thought that at&t was the wrong partner to go for a company such as Apple which strives for innovative ideas. I thought they should have made iPhone unlocked, but at the same I understand why they did what they did with at&t. But it’s amazing how poor iPhone sales have been (by Apple’s standards) in the U.K. I wouldn’t put the whole thing on iPhone being an American gadget and not satisfying the taste of Europeans. Of course, O2 is taking some action by making their plans more attractive to users, but why is Apple making all these bad judgment calls when it comes to wireless carriers?

So I had a chance to watch the iPhone commercial before the Mayweather vs. Hatton PPV event, and it was awfully close to what we see in the U.S. It talks about how it is better to have iPhone that has an iPod in your phone. The only difference was at the end where in the U.S. we have “Only on at&t” and here I saw “only on O2.” But believe it or not I thought the accent made the commercial much more interesting. The British accent really fits with the whole iPhone image. I wonder if Apple might play a version of that commercial with a different accent in U.S. I doubt it but it would be awesome if they did.

As you all know, iPhone launched in U.K and it seems people have a short memory of how things went down in the Kingdom. Of course, O2 announced that iPhone was the fastest-selling smart phone ever put on the shelves, but Weblogs are not reporting that the event was not as big as O2 wants you to believe. Apple has consistently put larger numbers up in the U.S. than in Europe. I don’t even think Steve Jobs believed he could actually get as big an interest as he got for iPhone in the U.S. It’s simply impossible. iPhone rocked the U.S. and it will probably rock the Europe too though there are more legit competitors in Europe it seems. For all that matters, iPhone’s launch was not a total bust, but rather a less than expected success. So why complain?