2011-01-11, 04:26 PM
It's more complicated than that in the US, Shidoshi. You have 2 types of telecommunication protocols in the US. GSM(Used Globally) and CDMA(Japan, India and the US). AT&T and T-Mobile use GSM. Verizon and Sprint use CDMA. So Apple has to build 2 phones, with different antennas.
Also factoring that they had signed a 5 year exclusivity deal with AT&T.
Also factoring that they had signed a 5 year exclusivity deal with AT&T.

