Comments on: What a T-Mobile iPhone Would Mean

By: becky

becky — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:09:50 +0000

I hate tmobil.Been with them for 10 years. now that i was car jacked and have police report they will not fullful the contract or insurance. so go with tmobil at ur own risk ,the insurance isnt worth the paper they print it on,....

By: J-sus

J-sus — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:04:33 +0000

I have T-mobile, I'm an android person and I see no need to switch to the iphone. T-mobile voice coverage is good in houston. You'd have to go pretty far out in the boonies to loose a signal. They have the major intersection covered because I've taken trips to dallas and louisiana and never lost my signal in between cities and states.

As for the 3g coverage it's a little bit of in certain places but I'm not switching networks over a couple of places were its bad.

I'm not dogging the iphone, I know it's a really nice phone but the couple of little things it has over droid 2 finger touch is not going to make me switch either.

By: Shah Ullah

Shah Ullah — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:12:24 +0000

@Conquistador

I wouldn't be surprised if the motivations behind the next carrier partnership for Apple is personal.
Why does this seem so outrageous to you? Vodafone already owns 45% of Verizon Wireless. The only reason I can see them not doing this is because they may want to wait until they have a cohesive strategy in place, but a complete takeover, I think, has always been in the works, at least in the rumormill.

Thanks and looking forward to hearing yours and anyone else's thoughts.

By: jj

jj — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:47:21 +0000

I said “as far as I know”. And this is just the first of many pieces of coverage you can find:
http://www.thetechscoop.net/2010/05/10/apple-and-att-renew-their-vows/

By: Ted T.

Ted T. — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:31:57 +0000

"We all know AT&T just renewed their exclusive contract with Apple. So, lets cut the nonsense and cover real news. OK?"

We know no such thing. If you have some sort of info on Apple renewing their AT&T contract, kindly link/post.

The only thing we know, and we know it because it was revealed in court documents, the original AT&T iPhone contract was for 5 years. Everything else, including your statement has been 100% pure speculation.

By: jj

jj — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:50:08 +0000

I appreciate your reply, and agree it would be a "compelling" discussion, but again I feel this discussion is premature. As far as I know the AT&T contract would preclude this arrangement from taking place within the next several years.

By: Scot

Scot — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:42:58 +0000

T-Mobile has the iPhone over in Europe, so really it is not that big of a surprise.

By: Vanessa Y

Vanessa Y — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:45:56 +0000

To be frank I’m not interested in a T-Mobile+iphone bundle. I am VERY interested, however, in the Verizon+iphone bundle. It just better have the 3G and the wifies :).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD-0pqZg
zazzle.com/thephonemart

By: Conquistador

Conquistador — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:55:56 +0000

Like your comments about it being personal between Jobs and Verizon - it probably hasn't helped that they've spent a ton of marketing money on the Droid campaign.
Vodaphone buying Verizon Wireless? It will never happen.
In terms of potential non-AT&T customers, going with T-Mobile and Sprint would be comparable to Verizon.
RE: LTE - that story is still being written. But even if Verizon meets their 100 million (potential) user coverage with LTE this year, they will be leveraging their CDMA voice network for a long, long time. 4G isn't going to kill off CDMA nearly as fast as everyone claims.

By: Colin Gibbs

Colin Gibbs — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:49:11 +0000

You're right that rumors such as these surface constantly, jj, which is why I mentioned that fact in the first sentence of this post. =) But there are some compelling reasons to think the latest rumors are more likely to be true than previous ones, and a T-Mo iPhone would send tremors through the mobile industry. So I think it's worth discussing.