Bad headlines for the AT&T haters and the Verizon fanboys.  Apple COO Tim Cook spoke at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference.  In his remarks, he obviously downplayed the need for Apple to add Verizon.

 

Cook additionally overwhelmed on a theme that’s been a bruise mark for iPhone users–Apple’s attribute with the disdainful U.S. use provider AT&T. iPhone business discontented with AT&T’s use have been anticipating which Apple would take on an additional partner in the U.S., though Cook’s comments on the theme Tuesday have been doubtful to add most fuel to which conjecture (hardly a warn given Cook called AT&T a “great partner” during final month’s gain announcement.)

 

On Tuesday, Cook remarkable the value of carrying a single-carrier relationship. Besides simplicity, traffic with a singular conduit allows Apple to “innovate and work with which conduit on a underline which would be formidable for mixed carriers to provide.” Take Visual Voicemail, for example–a underline which Apple and AT&T collaborated on for the iPhone’s primary release.

 

While carrying mixed carriers gives Apple the possibility to sell some-more iPhones, that’s mostly the box in countries where carriers have what Cook described as “sticky” relations with their customers, so which it creates clarity to ink deals with some-more than a singular carrier.

 

In the tip 10 markets for the iPhone, Apple has relations with singular carriers in 5 of them. Of those, 3 markets underline exclusivity agreements whilst the alternative 2 concede Apple to add alternative carriers.

 

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“We demeanour at any on a country-by-country basis,” he added.