NEW YORK -- Verizon COO Lowell McAdam said on Tuesday that the carrier will be happy to take AT&T customers who defect in light of the new Verizon iPhone 4.
"Well, we'll take every one of 'em," he said, responding to a question posed by a PBS Nightly Business Report anchor while shooting a segment outside of the Frederick P. Rose Hall at Lincoln Center.
The question is whether it is to be believed that the iPhone's expansion to include the Verizon network is "overblown," as one analyst suggested earlier this week.
As Erik Sherman notes on ZDNet sister site BNET, AT&T recently had its best quarter ever with regard to iPhone shipments, moving more than five million. Even the most optimistic predictions suggest Verizon could do the same -- but the question is how much that's at the expense of AT&T.
A few points to remember: