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Old Dec 21, 2009 | 1:09 pm
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Originally Posted by ADGrant
You can't possibly know that since Apple has never built phone hardware capable of working on Verizon.
Come on, don't be an AT&T fanboy.

Verizon's network is consistently voted the best, and those votes have not been dependent on the type of phone. So we have no reason to assume that a Verizon iPhone would be anything less than good as well.

My question - what was/is the benefit to Apple for limiting iPhone to a single network? Did AT&T pay some sort of premium to Apple for exclusive rights? Did that premium exceed the additional revenue Apple might have made, had the iPhone been available on Verizon/T-Mobile/Sprint etc?
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