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iPhone coming soon: except Vermont
Photo thanks to St Albans - Vermont
Apparently Steve Jobs is more Häagen-Dazs than Ben & Jerry’s.
In one of the more curious details of the upcoming apple iphone rollout; while customers from the great state of Vermont are more than welcome to buy an iPhone, they won’t actually be able to use it. Such is the problem with iPhones being available only through AT&T Cingular, and while large areas of other states including Alaska, Colorado, the Dakotas, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and even New York will be effected, Vermont is the only state completely without Cingularcoverage.
That the sparsely populated state is the odd man out isn’t surprising but what is ironic is the news comes in the same Vermont governor Jim Douglas wants to make the nation’s first e-state, having it completely cell phone and broadband accessible by 2010. And as Cingular plans its expansions two years in advance with nothing currently brewing, it looks as though Vermont iPhone fans are not going to be Cingular fans anytime soon.
For more info on the iPhone, check out The iPhone Comethand iPhone Demo.
Comments:
Well, Vermont atleast has Unicel which provides good GSM coverage, so you can roam up here. Unlike most of the other states that were covered by Dobson (which AT&T announced they were purchasing the day the iPhone was released) we can't really get actual AT&T/Cingular plans up here.
Of course, we pretty much lost all hope yesterday as Verizon Wireless announced they're purchasing RCC (i.e. Unicel) and converting them back over to CDMA. Of course, they'll leave the GSM on so they can earn roaming fees, but there are other unfortunate implications:
http://makkintosshu.dyndns.org/journal/say-goodbye-to-the-iphone-in-verm...
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[...] 1:58 pm TheCellFreak writes…In one of the more curious details of the upcoming apple iphone rollout; while customers from the great state of Vermont are more than welcome to buy an iPhone, they won’t actually be able to use it. Such is the problem with iPhones being available only through AT&T Cingular, and while large areas of other states including Alaska, Colorado, the Dakotas, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and even New York will be effected, Vermont is the only state completely without Cingular coverage. [...]
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