Report Details AT&T's Long Break-Even Wait on the iPhone

Courtesy Topix - Business News  Fri, 10/09/2009 - 22:00

A new report by the Yankee Group focuses on the subsidies wireless carriers pay to device manufacturers.

In particular, as C|Net found, despite the fact that AT&T's bottom line has been heavily boosted by the iPhone, it takes a long time for the company to make back it's money from the bandwidth-sucking Apple device.


 

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