to crush AT&T as AT&T had 'sunk' itself by giving strong support to the 'inferior' iPhone (or as the rantings of the Droid fans went for the last three years). "Android super phones will relegate iPhone to 2% marketshare , it's Mac PC again" etc.
so what the heck happened?
Fact is - if you read the quarterly financial reports - the last few years with iPhone AT&T was gaining profitable smart phone subscribers while the other carriers were losing them , and all this mainly due to the iPhone.
CEO of Deutsche Telekom AG (owner of T mobile) Nov 2010 financial report: "Consumers like T-Mobile but they also want to have the iPhone,"
WSJ "The U.S. used to be a cash cow for Deutsche Telekom but it has struggled there since 2008 and has been forced to invest more to keep existing customers and attract new ones"
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From what droideks were saying last year you would think T mobile would be buying AT&T soon...
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