Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg dismissed suggestions that the iPhones going mass-market by claiming it a conspiracy. Bitter, much?
Its hard not to call it sour grapes when Seidenberg told the Financial Times There goes the conspiracy again youre declaring them a winner before theyve earned it on the field.
What conspiracy, Mr Seidenberg? That Apples iPhone gets the kind of press that Verizon cant hope to generate for any of its data plans, let alone a single mobile device? Its a shame that Verizons hot-headed CEO is reacting, instead of thinking up ways to keep Verizon in the public eye. AT&T has the iPhone, Sprint has the Samsung Instinct. Verizon, unfortunately, doesnt have a single killer device to bring to market and steal either of the operators thunder.
Seidenberg thunders on about how Steve Jobs has no monopoly on innovation. And Steve Jobs eventually will get old . . . I like our chances." Verizon recently bought fifth-largest US wireless company Alltel, making Verizon Wireless the leading mobile operator with 80 million customers.
Vodafone entertained the notion of buying over Verizon Communications last year but Seidenberg thinks of Verizon as the hunter, not the hunted.
"In the long term, my view is that were the hunter. Thats the way I see it, and Im trying to develop a new generation of hunters."
Fighting words, Mr. Seidenberg. Verizon certainly seems bullish what with recently spending $23bn on a high-speed, fibre optic network offering theoretical speeds of 50 megabits a second. But though Verizon Wireless may be the biggest carrier, the question here is whether Verizon can keep those 80 billion [sic] customers and how theyll make sure they wont go running to the competition. Well, in ways apart from annoying long-term phone contracts, that is.
That is a lot of customers . What is making them sic ?
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