Apple iPhone 3G exclusive to AT&T until 2010
Apple buddy AT&T has managed to secure their deal for the Apple iPhone 3G as exclusive US suppliers for another year until 2010 according to USA Today
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This exclusive year extension hasn’t been officially announced, but apparently has been cited in the context of an interview with Randall Stephenson, AT&T CEO.
Stephenson, became AT&T chairman and CEO a year ago, and is responsible for championing the idea to pay Apple roughly $300 per iPhone 3G handset to keep retail costs down.
Stephenson, in the interview is quoted as saying things like: “The iPhone has repositioned AT&T as the premier wireless brand in the world.”
The upside is now the ordinary folk can afford to bye an iPhone at $199.00, the downside is iPhone customers fork out virtually double on rate plans than the average AT&T customer.
It’s not hard to see why AT&T wants to extend the exclusivity is it?
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I’m sorry, but no amount of high-tech gear, OS or marketing is going to get me to renew with AT&T/Cingular ever again. That bridge is crossed, burned and all but forgotten. I’m a Macboy since the beginning, and have faithfully updated my Apple gear from the lowly 128K Mac to my brand new MacBook Pro (still have the Mac Plus and 512c). And I love the Iphone and what it represents. But four years with Cingular has taught me a valuable lesson in customer non-service. I’ll continue to tether my Treo to the MacBook Pro until 2010 when I may reconsider the Iphone when it’s on another carrier.