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Money works both ways by: Anonymous on 2/18/2010
"as it stands Apple gets quite a bit of money from AT&T and their monthly charges. If they moved to another carrier they will not get the same amount"

So what you are saying is that it is more valuable for ATT to continue to pay Apple for the franchaise, rather than any other carrier to pony up.

Who's problem is that?
Apple & AT&T by: Sean Kalinich on 2/15/2010
The problem with what you are saying is that Apple would never get as much per month from a T-Mobile agreement.

There is no benefit from it for Apple. Also people have reported that the iPhone does not work well on T-Mobile's 3G network and in many cases you cannot use 3G at all but have to rely on their Edge network.

Again switching would cost Apple money.
Not sure I totally agree by: Anonymous on 2/13/2010
They could open it up to the plethora of other GSM providers in the country at virtually no cost. T-Mobile probably being the biggest. You just stick a different SIM in it. Currently lots of folks do this already; although they have to work around the deliberate software limitations by jail breaking.

Apple would stand to sell more phones, and therefore more apps if the opened it that way. To top it off there would be extremely little up front cost (in the form of a software update to remove the carrier lock).
Africa by: Sean Kalinich on 2/12/2010
According to Several sources Africa uses CDMA for rural access South Africa also is still primarily a CDMA region

http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/12/07/africa-banks-cdma-rural-connectivity

http://www.africacdma.com/2008/06/08/cdma-more-than-450-million-worldwide-subscribers/

CDMA is still a large portion of the African wireless network. Yes there is GSM there but according to statistics CDMA is still on wider usage there.
by: Anonymous on 2/12/2010
africa is gsm.
Opening by: Sean Kalinich on 2/11/2010
Apple has a deal with AT&T, it benefits both of them financially. If Apple allowed the iPhone to be open it would breach that deal.

They cannot simply unlock and open the phone. Additionally as the iPhone is GSM only it can never work on a CDMA network, unless Apple spends more money to develop a CDMA phone or a dual mode phone [GSM/CDMA].
by: Anonymous on 2/11/2010
why iphone will not open"officially"after two years of contract?
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