Originally Posted by
pittpanther
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?
Apple didn't limit it to a single network, more so limiting it to a single type of Radio technology (this being a GSM radio which is more of a worldwide standard). There is a pretty big incentive to keeping it to just one type of radio and not having to insure all the software works with both hardware types. With GSM in the US you have ATT or Tmobile.