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Should AT&T Consolidate To One Smartphone Platform?
Published 12/5/2008 by eric@zemanmedia.com (Eric Zeman) at InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs
At a Symbian event in San Francisco this week, an AT&T; exec suggested that the company would like to support only one smartphone operating system for a number of reasons. Could AT&T; survive with just one smartphone platform?
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