Monthly Archive for July, 2010

OK, so this can turn out to be something really interesting if AT&T takes a cue from history and plays its cards right. As per reports from Bloomberg, Verizon may also start offering iPhone early next year. This could be another of those scores of news (read rumours) which “reported” that Verizon may offer its very own iPhone, and later turned out to be false. But in case it is true, AT&T is in the right place to take some sweet revenge.

Ever since Verizon ridiculed it’s 3G coverage, AT&T followed the righteous path of making an effort to upgrade its 3G infrastructure. And as evident in the results of PCWorld’s Second 3G Wireless Performance Test, this turned out in AT&T’s favour finally. Now, if the news about Verizon’s fling with iPhone is correct, the Texan Telecom giant has the right opportunity to turn the tables by doing to Verizon what Apple did to IBM in the year 1981. When IBM announced the introduction of its PC, Apple ran a full-page “Welcome, IBM. Seriously.” advertisement in The Wall Street Journal. David (Apple) was aware of Goliath’s (IBM) strength, and an in-the-face public challenge of this proportion was primarily aimed at fooling the market into reckoning the two companies at par.

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