Thank you for confirming my point. The other countries having a single carrier are mainly smaller or less developed African and Eastern European States...pretty much every major market (apart from the original recipients of iPhone contracts such as US and Germany) is multi-carrier nowadays.
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Thank you for confirming my point. The other countries having a single carrier are mainly smaller or less developed African and Eastern European States...pretty much every major market (apart from the original recipients of iPhone contracts such as US and Germany) is multi-carrier nowadays.
Dual Band iPhone coming to Verizon Q3 2010?
Absolutely NOT. Verizon is totally out of the iPhone game.
Well, I did my part to boost the numbers today by finally getting my iPhone--my Christmas present to myself.
I see a ton "in the wild" that are just carried around by mere mortals and not techies or business types. It is taking off just like the iPod did a few years ago. I hope Apple continues to improve it with software updates and future models.
Mexico has 3 carriers:
- Telcel (EDGE GSM 3G)
- Movistar (EDGE GSM 3G)
- Iusacell (3G CDMA EVDO)
Only Telcel has the iPhone and there's no end in sight to their exclusivity. And with a population of over 100 million people apple could benefit from having several carriers for their phone.
Thanks to the other poster for the clarification.
Yeah right... so 50:50 confirms your point. NOT.
Neither of us was right.
So in short you're saying:
"If we neglect two of the biggest markets, everyone else apart from some other medium-sized markets that we can arbitrarily neglect is multi-carrier."
I don't think that needs to be commented on any further...
Yeah right... so 50:50 confirms your point. NOT.
Neither of us was right.
So in short you're saying:
"If we neglect two of the biggest markets, everyone else apart from some other medium-sized markets that we can arbitrarily neglect is multi-carrier."
I don't think that needs to be commented on any further...
The 65 million iPhones Question...
...and 10 million more iTunes accounts... and at many many more iTunes purchases per phone...the 64 million dollar question...
What will the next gen iPhone cycle bring us?
...and 10 million more iTunes accounts... and at many many more iTunes purchases per phone...the 64 million dollar question...
What will the next gen iPhone cycle bring us?
Canada only had 1 carrier as of 3 months ago. Of course, that carrier was the only GSM carrier in the country too. Bell and Telus got the iPhone has soon as they deployed their 3G network.
Believe me, there is no exclusivity elsewhere. Carriers just don't want to have the iPhone if they don't have it and can.
It's not 50:50. Do you have any data on exclusivity contracts for the countries that don't have more than 1 carrier with the iPhone ? I thought not. A country not having multiple carriers with an iPhone is not proof that Apple has an exclusivity deal, only that 1 carrier has the iPhone.
His point and mine still stand. They are expanding carriers because they can. People crying exclusivity is only a US thing (and Germany it seems).
Haha... so funny and predictable. RIM creamed Apple last quarter, showing more growth and more market share than the iPhone (08 Q3 vs 09 Q3). RIM is very much alive, Apple won't easily get into the business sector, especially not after the Exchange support fiasco of a few months ago :
http://gizmodo.com/5357285/iphone-os-31-breaks-ms-exchange-on-older-iphones
Thank you for answering on my behalf, that was exactly my point. There is a BIG difference between exclusivity as a market strategy (US and Germany) and having single carriers due to locally-driven factors (such as size of markets, presence of multinational carriers and GSM availability).
Exclusivity as a strategy paid off in the US and Germany when the iPhone was THE SINGLE innovative smartphone...now that others have copied it and joined the fray, the business appeal for contractual exclusivity is not that big anymore...
Apple has tested and won in many markets, so now it can go guerilla elsewhere with little tradeoffs.
For the moment, maybe. For the long term though? Don't bet on it. Once all the carriers move to their 4G networks all bets are off.
Sure, I give you that (even if I still think that SJ won't let Verizon have it after the latter's marketing blunder)...once LTE is in place for all, it's gonna a different game altogether.
They'd have no trouble making crazy sales numbers if they would just make a CDMA phone for verizon!
Because every carrier will be working on the same standard, and as such, every carrier will have access to every phone from the get go.
It's actually VzW who screwed themselves. If they had chosen to go with the global cellular standard for networks, they would have an iPhone now I'm sure. The iPhone is so successful globally because most countries are GSM, not CDMA, although there are a few out there, but they are horrible IMO.
Oh yes ..... there are simply no iphones around besides of probably Main cities like Barcelona or Madrid .
No idea if Movistar is not ordering enough or Apple is not sending them ... either way my 3G was delivered in October last year and was ordered in July ....
Saludos
