On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:18:38 -0500, Charles <fort514@mac.com> wrote in
<300120072118389796%fort514@mac.com>:

>In article <45bff73d$0$68962$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>, SMS
><scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
>
>> In fact, it is highly unlikely that Apple would do this, as it's very
>> out of character. Jobs is, above all, a businessman. He looked at which
>> carrier signs up the most customers each quarter for post-paid service,
>> and went to them first. It'd be one thing if the two top carriers were
>> fairly close in terms of new contract customers, but they're not.
>> Verizon consistently tops Cingular by more than a two to one margin for
>> new post-paid customers, the most valuable kind.
>
>Most likely he went to both carriers in the beginning to see which ones
>he could work with. Both are in the same ballpark size-wise. But if he
>were going to pick one it is more likely he would have went to Cingular
>first because of the GSM and it's bigger global footprint.

Yep.

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