T-Mobile Confirms Apple Agreement to Offer iPhone
T-Mobile USA has announced that it's entered an agreement with Apple that will see the former finally offering the iPhone next year.
The news derives from T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom, who disclosed the agreement within an investor update via a press release.
"In addition, T-Mobile USA has entered into an agreement with Apple to bring products to market together in 2013," the statement said.
While it remains unclear whether the agreement actually includes the iPhone, the deal should undoubtedly include the smartphone as such an agreement wouldn't make sense without it for both Apple and T-Mobile.
Apple already sells the iPhone at the other three national carriers. T-Mobile is the fourth largest carrier in the United States with 33 million customers; Merrill Lynch analyst Scott Craig believes around 4 million from that figure would be expected to purchase the iPhone when the firm does offer it to subscribers.
it's the worst service, period
bad calls, bad signal, and they constantly try to rip off you off with billing "errors"
how naive.
Anyone who lives in the states should be happy about this, because it keeps the carrier market more competitive. It doesn't matter if you love or hate iPhones. T-Mobile will be able to be much more competitive in the consumers eyes now, since a lot of consumer are still looking for iPhones, and some of the will choose T Mobile when they wouldn't have otherwise.
This is like saying no one cares to Blackberry's finally getting ARM chips (with their new BB10 devices), because they are late to the market and not competitive anymore. Late or not, it keeps all the other phone makers on their toes a little more, and keeps innovation going. Innovation in this case being more competitive plans across the carriers, meaning money saved for the consumer
Not necessarily. Perhaps they made no sacrifices. Perhaps Apple came to them with an reasonable offer. Oh wait....