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Friday June 29, 2007
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iPhone fans in northern Wisconsin, northern Minnesota, northern Michigan, north suburban Topeka and parts of upstate New York rejoice: by the end of the year (regulators willing), you will be able to buy iPhones because Dobson Cellular One, a regional carrier in your area, was purchased by AT&T today.
AT&T will only sell iPhones in areas where they have native coverage - which means most famously, no iPhones for the entire state of Vermont. This purchase doesn't help Vermonters, but it extends AT&T's coverage in a number of rural areas where they're weak. Check out Dobson's coverage map versus AT&T's coverage map and you'll see what I mean: they complement each other pretty exactly.
Cellular One subscribers won't be able to buy iPhones until their local brand switches over to AT&T. But at least there's now an end in sight -- unlike those poor folks in Vermont with their wacky Unicel.
(Thanks to Bloomberg News)
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July 12, 2007 3:35 PM
The Iphone with ATT service is allowed to roam on any GSM network. Vt specifically is home to Unicel, a gsm based carrier covering northern New England. Anyone traveling to VT, ME etc will have service Via roaming with Unicel. Just wanted to clear up this common misconception.