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So a guaranteed 2.5B/year for a few months of exclusivity? Seems like a pretty big win to me. > especially since many of the sales they would make from such a

So a guaranteed 2.5B/year for a few months of exclusivity? Seems like a pretty big win to me. > especially since many of the sales they would make from such a deal would not be new, but merely shifted Possibly, but they could pick up new customers as well (existing sprint customers that want to upgrade to a smartphone, etc).

pieter 15y ago
You have to compare it to the alternative -- how many sales on Verizon / AT&T will they lose with this exclusivity? How many phones would they sell on Sprint if it was available there, just not exclusively?