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2007-09-20, 10:26

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Originally Posted by rasmits View Post
I guess I don't understand why, if Apple partnered with Orange in France, they wouldn't use Orange in the UK too? Orange operates in many countries - Spain, Italy, Switzerland, etc. Why go country to country?
I guess they want to spread the risk a bit. They could have gone with T-Mobile across the US, UK, France, Germany, and a lot of other countries. But why give one company so much power over your product? It looks like T-Mobile will be the provider for a few smaller countries too (like Austria and a few of its neighboring countries), at least according to rumors. But still, having a bunch of different providers, who are also competitors in several countries, is probably a good "divide and conquer"-type strategy.
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