Yes, I am telling you that. At the beginning of 2005, EVDO was about 1% coverage in a few city centers and then exploded in the Verizon network. There were very few phones that could even connect with EVDO, and they were expensive. Sprint built where Verizon didn't. . . rural areas. Their mutual roaming pacts made their networks virtually indistinguishable. Between Sprint and Verizon, it was very easy to grow that fast.
It was a technology who's time had arrived.
A lot can happen with two years of concentrated effort and spending two-billion dollars. Sprint piggy-backs on Verizon's network and vice-verse . . . they lease bandwidth from Verizon. Verizon concentrated on urban populations with large concentrations and then built rapidly out from cores. Verizon was eating Cingular/AT&T's lunch. . . adding customers right and left at Cingular/AT&T's expense. Meanwhile Sprint was on Verizon's CDMA coattails.
That's why it was so easy for Steve Jobs to convince Cingular/AT&T to change their business model for the iPhone. . . they had to do something. Cingular/AT&T had the wrong idea that everything had to happen in any area at once. It slowed them down immensely because they would not activate anything in an area until everything was ready to switch over.
Why you sneaky old fool. The PPC-6700 was released at the end of 2005, not the beginning. You stated that “when my phone was released” that there was 1% coverage. This has been typical of your misrepresentations through out our entire conversation. You have been using similar tactics in every area we have discussed. Shame on you! You are a very disingenuous person!