Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple / AT&T Exclusivity Agreement
Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple / AT&T Exclusivity Agreement
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Apple / AT&T Exclusivity Agreement
- From: Joel Esler <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:06:17 -0400
Let's all stop playing with what we don't know. Myself included. We don't know when the contract will end, but given Steve Jobs's comments during his interview at D8, I cant imagine it'll be forever.
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On Jun 10, 2010, at 3:02 PM, Dave Schroeder <email@hidden> wrote:
> ...then there were also the rumors that 2 years of exclusivity were cut off the agreement when it was renegotiated, around the time that the subsidy and revenue sharing model for changed.
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> ...then there were the follow-on rumors to that rumor that said that exclusivity was re-extended to 5 years when AT&T agreed to become the contractless data partner for iPad.
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> Of course, I don't know whether any of this is accurate, and it's still unclear if Apple would even be willing to build a CDMA handset (though I personally suspect they would when the AT&T relationship has provided all it can).
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> - Dave
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> On Jun 10, 2010, at 11:56 AM, Joel Esler wrote:
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>> 2012 is the 5 year mark.
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>> On Jun 10, 2010, at 12:51 PM, "IT2 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>> ALCON,
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>>> My understanding of the Apple and AT&T iPhone agreement is that the currently executed contractual conditions are a five (5) year exclusivity agreement. Now, that being said, the predicates of what might offer relief to either side from the constraints of that exclusivity agreement were never made public.
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>>> However, even if there were no relief option for the exclusivity agreement for Apple or AT&T, it would stand to reason that next year might well be the fifth year and relief would (ostensibly) be irrelevant anyway in that scenario, since I believe the iPhone's initiate release was at least three, maybe four years ago.
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>>> V/R,
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>>> Stuart B. Tener
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