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addison
Formerly “AWM”
 
Join Date: May 2009
 
2012-05-17, 09:18

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Originally Posted by Kraetos View Post
It has nothing to do with LTE. Verizon hypes LTE because the iPhone doesn't have it. When the iPhone does have it they'll find something else to hype.
Doubt it. Verizon hypes 4G because they spent $9.4 billion just for the initial spectrum plus a couple more billion for the AWS spectrum. Now they are spending north of $5 billion per year to deploy it. Can't blame them for wanting to monetize that especially when the initial take up has been below some expectations.

I do agree about the iPhone subsidy but that will be dealt with either through negotiations with Apple or raising fees and rates on customers. It can't be dealt with by a few salesmen here and there. Plus I'm in these stores somewhat frequently to check out new phones and I still see reps automatically blurt out iPhone when a customer doesn't know what they want.
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