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Old Dec 22, 2009 | 4:03 pm
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ADGrant
 
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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?
Don't be a iPhone/Verizon fanboy. The iPhone is great for a lot of things but it isn't a particularly good phone. Since Apple has never sold a CDMA device you have no idea if it would be any good. And yes it is possible to get bad phone performance from a CDMA device on Verizon's network. The last phone I had on Verizon was terrible.
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