Anton Wahlman
Android will find itself on every single carrier soon enough, not only T-Mobile. That said, it is true T-Mobile is cheaper than Verizon and AT&T. But so is Sprint -- and MetroPCS is even cheaper. I love T-Mobile, but the biggest advantage currently in possession by Verizon and AT&T is that each of them have purchased nationwide or near-... Read Morenationwide spectrum (some 20 MHz each) situated just above 700 MHz. Verizon launches significantly December 2010 and AT&T a year thereafter. How do T-Mobile and Sprint compete with that?

Anton Wahlman
By the way, just one statistic alone: For the last few reported quarters (up through March 2009), the #1 selling smartphone in the US is the Blackberry Curve -- not the iPhone. Actually, 3 of the top 5 best-selling smartphones in the US were Blackberry. Lord knows if the June 2009 numbers hold up the same way, but it's probably now off by much. That said, Blackberry launches most of its new models in July-November, unlike some of its competitors, who are on June schedules.

Paul Kapustka
This post doesn't even begin to answer a very pertinent question -- where would AT&T get the spectrum needed to make such services available?

Anton Wahlman
The only known spectrum expansion on the horizon for AT&T is the 20 MHz of which it just took possession approximately one month ago, and where it has said it intends to launch LTE service by about December 2011. 20 MHz situated just North of 700 MHz isn't much, but it beats nothing...