AT&T Invests In Network To Prevent Verizon iPhone “Exodus”

 

The Wall Street Journal mentioned today that AT&T is recently pouring several investments in building out its network as a defensive move against a "huge exodus to Verizon" when its rival gets the iPhone. The preventative measures include working with Apple on streamlining the iPhone's network load and infrastructure spending that is expected to be a total of $2 million by the end of 2010. The Wall Street Journal claimed yesterday that Apple was in the process of making a CMDA version of its iPone that could hit mass production as early as September and allowing other networks (Verizon) to get iPhones out by the holidays. However, you can't come to a conclusion about the iPhone on the Verizon network just yet. Sprint has shown a remarkable ability of attracting new cutting edge phones. The picture that comes with the whole ordeal though, is one of AT&T nervously trying to patch up its service offering in the ace of a rapidly expiring exclusivity agreement.