A Private Carrier for the iPhone

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Recently, word got out that Steve Jobs wanted a private cell phone carrier for the iPhone. He wanted to make an Apple brand provider that would supply plans for only Apple phones. With this in action, all other plans for other providers would become arbitrary and would dissolve. Current providers such as AT&T and Verizon would be out of the iPhone’s vision and would have split the smart phone market into farther distances of separation. Without the iPhone, these two major providers would not be as big of competitors. Many speculate that AT&T would have filed for bankruptcy without the addition of the iPhone their collection. Another group of people think that the Apple phone would not have had the incredible impact on the smart-phone community had it not been for the setting with established providers. The theory is that people do not want to rely on a network that only sells one phone and does not primarily specialize in the telecommunications business anyways. When it comes down to what happened, advisors convinced Jobs before the phone’s release to go with the established companies. Had Jobs created his own provider, it is tough to know just how much the cell provider system could have changed.

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-- Ben Fagelman