Class Action Lawsuit Over iPhone Exclusivity Certified
Main reason for this lawsuit is..
Outside of the USA, the iPhone is not a carrier exclusive device.
Verizon, and Sprint might be left out of the iPhone sales, but since T-Mobile is GSM/HSPA+ carrier just like AT&T, it would only be logical for Apple to allow T-Mobile to sell the iPhone too.
The argument about T-Mobile have AWS spectrum vs AT&T's Cellular 850/ PCS 1900 spectrum is getting old. AWS 1700 has been out since 2006, and if Motorola, Samsung, HTC, RIM, and other GSM/CDMA OEMs can make phones with the AWS 1700 band that T-Mobile, and even CDMA/EvDO dual band 1700/1900 phones for MetroPCS, then so can Apple.
terryjohnson16 said:
The argument about T-Mobile have AWS spectrum vs AT&T's Cellular 850/ PCS 1900 spectrum is getting old. AWS 1700 has been out since 2006, and if Motorola, Samsung, HTC, RIM, and other GSM/CDMA OEMs can make phones with the AWS 1700 band that T-Mobile, and even CDMA/EvDO dual band 1700/1900 phones for MetroPCS, then so can Apple.
It doesn't even matter if they make them support AWS 3G. Thousands of people have jailbroken iPhones and are perfectly happy using them on T-mobile's EDGE network with WiFi.
Hundreds of thousands would do it if it wasn't complicated and black market. Apple doesn't need to change the hardware ONE BIT to expand into the other GSM markets in the USA.
You know they paying Apple serious cash to keep it that way.
This has everything to do with the AWS 3G band being locked out.
Look at the iPad 3G. If Apple wanted to, they could have manufactured it to have full Penta-band 3G support, but they didn't cause they have an USA exclusive with AT&T. This again keeps even AT&T's closest GSM partner, T-Mobile out.
For the iPHONE there are literally hundreds of thousands of people who would love to have 2G only service in exchange for the convenience of leaving AT&T and keep their heart throb gadget in tow.
Rebuilding and rebanding would not be hard to do for 1700 MHz bands, but my point was that even that amount of work is unnecessary. They could open up and unlock iPhones in their current hardware builds to other US carriers and people would still flock away from AT&T, even if they went to a carrier with only 2G towers.
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