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Originally Posted by Azure
I don't know much about the industry, but its hard to believe that it takes THAT long to improve your network.
Me thinks AT&T was reaping the benefits of being the only carrier in the US with the iPhone and didn't really worry that much about having the best network possible.
I think I'm safe in saying that considering Bell, Rogers and Telus all had a better network here in lowly ol' Canada, and all 3 don't have the footprint AT&T does.
Because of that I hope they suffer. Go Verizon go.
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AT&T likely had investments to make during the initial and pre-launch phases as well as ongoing support/infrastructure costs. It's not like the iPhone was instant gravy for them.
I'm inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt because the damage to their brand's perception as being reliable offset some of the financial rewards. Could they have acted faster? Maybe. Did they think they were prepared? They probably did. Bill Gates was wrong about RAM. We all make mistakes predicting the future. iPhone adoption was pretty incredible. A big company like AT&T probably had pretty conservative estimates compared to reality.
Also, bell/rogers/telus are hard to factor into it because we don't have anywhere near the same population density as the USA. (although you are right to say we benefited, we certainly did)