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Why Verizon Doesn't Want You To Buy an iPhone
Hugh Pickens writes "Sascha Segan writes that although Verizon adamantly denies steering customers away from Apple's iPhones in favor of 4G LTE-enabled Android devices, he is convinced that Verizon has a strong reason to push buyers away from the iPhone. 'Here's the problem,' writes Segan. 'Verizon has spent millions of dollars rolling out its massive LTE network' but the carrier can't easily add capacity on its old 3G network. Since the iPhone isn't a 4G phone, sales of Verizon iPhones just crowd up their already busy 3G network while their 4G network has plenty of space. 'The iPhone is a great device. But it's making a crowded network more crowded. Until the LTE iPhone comes along, to rebalance its network, Verizon may quietly push Android phones.'"
That last sentence is the fault of some dead white guys named Maxwell, Hertz, Shannon, and Nyquist, not anyone at AT&T or Verizon.
If that were true, then care to explain how we came to define and follow Moores law for many a decade?
Sorry, but an unlimited data plan is not some sort of physical impossibility. It is a business decision. Plain and simple. Unlimited Internet plans are offered in MANY other markets in which those businesses DID adapt to meet demand, with some existing in the same cellular market.