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Why Apple Needs To Dump AT&T

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  • by Ci
  • in News
  • — 20 Jul

As someone who has owned every single iPhone (generation-wise) that has come out in the past few years, I can tell you that Apple could have done a much better job when it comes to choosing a carrier for this hot gadget. Not giving consumers too many options is never a good idea, and Apple has done just that by making AT&T the exclusive service provider for iPhone. A lot of industry experts have been calling for Apple to dump AT&T for months. Whether it’s been service outages or dropped calls, AT&T hasn’t endear itself to iPhone owners in the past few months. But can Apple dictate terms to the wireless carriers as some believe it could?

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Apple iPhone is too good of a gadget to have an exclusive carrier. That’s why the antitrust review of Apple – AT&T contract by the Congress has been interesting to watch. I don’t believe that Apple should drop AT&T completely. But there is no question that folks should have the option to get iPhone from other carriers if they want. There were talks a few months ago about Apple building a nano iPhone exclusively for Verizon but that hasn’t materialized yet. Add to that the fact that AT&T is trying very hard to extend its exclusive deal with Apple by another year, and we have got an interesting situation.

AT&T has been a good partner for Apple. It has helped the company bring iPhone to millions of homes. But Apple doesn’t owe AT&T any favors. The relationship has probably worked out better for AT&T than Apple (except if you count the fact that AT&T’s reputation has taken a big damage by all the negative talks about its service online and offline). Apple should not and probably will not dump AT&T anytime soon. But it’s never too late to bring other wireless carriers to the table. It’s not just good for business. Apple owe it to its customers!

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3 Comments

  1. Bryan says:
    July 23 at 12:12 am

    Apple needs to ditch AT&T permanently. I have so many more dropped calls with this terrible provider than I had with T-Mobile or Sprint. (Sidenote-Sprint is terrible too for their customer service, but I didn’t have to hit redial as often).
    T-mobile was always courteous and had great service. I hear great things about Verizon as well. AT&T is awful. I have been getting voice-mails hours after they were left and that is unacceptable. Lose them Apple, please for the sake of all those geeks you depend on, geeks like me.

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  2. Miacol says:
    July 23 at 2:15 pm

    Bryan, first of all you said you hear not that it’s true. Second of all as a geek, I pray to all the gods that the iPhone is not exclusive on VZW (I refuse to use a locked down phone). Second of all not able to global roam would be a living nightmare, I have an iPhone in the USA and have to have another phone outside not a great feature. And while other phones support GSM (Storm), guess what no data overseas, and by adding all that chipset meants a thicker phone.

    Now I’m the other side of the coin I have not had a problem with my ATT service, and VZW get’s no coverage where I am at, live and work. So then I would be in the same boat as you.

    If Apple wants to create different devices for different carriers that’s fine, but don’t say it should go away from 1 carrier because you don’t like them for everyone I meet on the web that hates ATT, I meet more people in real life that like the service.

    As for industry insiders they really need to get a new hobby then the constant bashing of ATT, for allot of us it simply works and works great.

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  3. Alan Jay Weiner says:
    July 29 at 9:49 am

    I’ve used Sprint for a long time – as mentioned, customer service vacuums (although better the last couple of times I called) – even so, not as bad as AT&T was when I last used them many years ago! I would love an iPhone, but I’ll give up my cellphone *entirely* before I’d go back to AT&T. At one point, my password was “H8H8H8ATT” (hate, hate, hate,…)

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