Analysts are now predicting that Apple will offer the iPhone to T-Mobile instead of Verizon.
According to TheStreet, AT&T will lose its exclusive agreement to sell the iPhone sometime next year and Verizon has been the favorite to get the device next, but Thomas Weisel analyst Doug Reid disputes that assumption.
Reid points to growing division between rivals which sees Google joining forces with Verizon to push the Droid.
Verizon has released several commercials directly attacking Apple, the iPhone, and its AT&T network. Apple and AT&T have since fired back with their own commercials.
"Apple wants to move away from exclusivity; T-Mobile would achieve this for Apple in the U.S.," Reid says. Notably, Apple already sells phones through Germany's T-Mobile unit.
The problem is that T-Mobile has half as many customers as Verizon's 71 million. Investors are likely to view a move to T-Mobile as far less lucrative.
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According to TheStreet, AT&T will lose its exclusive agreement to sell the iPhone sometime next year and Verizon has been the favorite to get the device next, but Thomas Weisel analyst Doug Reid disputes that assumption.
Reid points to growing division between rivals which sees Google joining forces with Verizon to push the Droid.
Verizon has released several commercials directly attacking Apple, the iPhone, and its AT&T network. Apple and AT&T have since fired back with their own commercials.
"Apple wants to move away from exclusivity; T-Mobile would achieve this for Apple in the U.S.," Reid says. Notably, Apple already sells phones through Germany's T-Mobile unit.
The problem is that T-Mobile has half as many customers as Verizon's 71 million. Investors are likely to view a move to T-Mobile as far less lucrative.
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