HotHrdware reports that AT&T's exclusivity on the iPhone is a mere three days from being over. Obviously, then that announcement on Wednesday might not only be about Tabletmania, it might also be the ushering in of new mobile carrier partners in the US. The report stopped short of naming Verizon, but it did mention that AT&T was sick of having the iPhone "hurt its image":
Inside of AT&T, we are hearing that the iPhone is causing more trouble than ever before. On some level, having the iPhone is hurting AT&T's image. Because they are the only company to carry it, and it's such a data hog, it's largely to blame for AT&T's network troubles. We don't remember hearing about AT&T's "horrible network" before the iPhone--do you? The iPhone itself doesn't really handle the switch from 3G to EDGE very well, so calls that are in-progress tend to fai
