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Originally Posted by ming
Ok, fair enough, but I wouldn't count on AT&T to be upgrading their network to compete with Verizon any time soon. Up to this point they have done next to nothing to keep up technology wise. They go and spend $50M to upgrade their EDGE network from 134kb to 200kb... oh boy. Verizon has been investing in their network constantly for years. It will take quite a bit of time and a huge amount of investment, the kind that AT&T has shown no interest in doing, to catch up to where Verizon is today!
When you see an AT&T iPhone and a Verizon smartphone go head to head browsing the web, the difference is astounding. Astounding how much faster the Verizon network is and astounding how beautiful the web pages display on the iPhone.
I wish I had both.  |
Well AT&T has gotten around $1 billion in service plan revenue just since the iPhone launched.
So far the sales have exceeded early predictions by 2x to 5x. Early estimates were that they'd sell 3 million of them this year and that's not taking into account the quick start. That would be around $5 million in service plan revenue alone.