"nospam" <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
news:300620090117276099%nospam@nospam.invalid...
> In article <alpine.OSX.2.00.0906292133330.10452@hsinghsing.pa nda.com>,
> Mark Crispin <mrc@panda.com> wrote:
>
>> > Let's just boil this down and get real. You're talking about a phone
>> > available on ONE carrier in the U.S. Granted, it's the largest single
>> > carrier, but just one.
>>
>> AT&T is not the largest carrier in the USA. Verizon is.
>
> although they are close, at&t has more subscribers and higher revenue
> than verizon:
> <http://www.entangledparticles.com/ep/2009/02/index.html>


That was back in February... A lot can happen in a few months!

Verizon took the lead because of the acquision of Alltel's 13 million
subscribers,
http://www.networkworld.com/news/200...iber-lead.html,
just as AT&T became the leader with the merger of Cingular and (old) AT&T
Wireless a few years ago.