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A New Chance For Apple (AAPL) To Gouge AT&T (T)

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winter10The deal under which AT&T (T) is the exclusive cellular carrier with rights to sell the Apple (AAPL) iPhones in the US will expire soon. The phone company believes that the partnership is essential to giving it an edge in its competition with Verizon Wireless (VOD)(VZ) and Sprint (S). So, it wants to extend its exclusivity arrangement with the PC and consumer electronics company.

According to The Wall Street Journal, AT&T’s CEO faces “keeping the iPhone away from rivals and finding the next hit devices, such as smart phones and multimedia handheld tablets.” That certainly give Apple the upper hand in any negotiations.

Apple is likely to be shopping its US exclusivity arrangement to Sprint, Verizon, and T-Mobile. The most desperate of these is Sprint which is still losing customers and market share. It may be willing to pay an exorbitant amount to get the hottest product in the handset business.

No matter which US carrier ends up with the iPhone deal, it will pay dearly. That is good news for Apple shareholders.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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