What are the reasons to marry a carrier?

Posted by Bohdan Trotsenko on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Bohdan Trotsenko
Published on 2010-06-08T07:25:31Z Indexed on 2010/06/08 7:32 UTC
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Probably because I live in Europe, I cannot understand 1 phenomenon in US cellphones business.

iPhone is bound to AT&T,
HTC EVO 4G is for Sprint,
Droid goes with Verison
etc...

Businesses do that. I guess they do that for a reason.

If I were a phone manufacturer, why should I make a phone available for a single carrier only?

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