The CEO of Deutsche Telekom, Rene Obermann blamed the lack of the iPhone on T-Mobile’s network to be the reason for their poor performance over the summer. He said that having good network quality wasn’t enough if the right devices aren’t there. With only 137,000 new subscribers for the season, T-Mobile didn’t too well when compared to the other major carriers. Over the past three years, T-Mobile has seen its customer base take a dive, with their users leaving to AT&T for the iPhone or Verizon for competing Android phones- despite them having high-profile phones such as the G2. With 24% of AT&T’s subscribers this summer new iPhone users- T-Mobile could have been the carrier with a portion of those subscribers. But with T-Mobile’s release of their myTouch 4G phone yesterday, and the bashing of the iPhone 4, I doubt Apple will be releasing the iPhone for on Magenta’s network anytime soon. Then again, money does talk and things might turn out differently. Do you think the presence of the iPhone on T-Mobile’s network would have made much of a difference this summer? Were you one of the many T-Mobile customers who switched to AT&T just for the iPhone?
