Those cosy exclusive deals between Apple and carriers including AT&T and O2 may be on the way out, as the company seeks to widen market share and regulators ponder the significance of these deals as they examine the business methods of the wireless industries.
We’ve heard plenty of reports suggesting Apple plans to at least partially abandon these exclusive tie-ups.
Doing so makes lots of sense, on the one hand those firms with exclusive distro deals for iPhone seem to attract complaints at the patchiness of their networks; the other reason, of course, is to boost market share of the iPhone. There’s plenty of potential customers out there who
