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Apple bosses say they’re ‘confident’ AT&T will fix iPhone coverage ‘issues’

There’s been speculation Apple will dump its exclusive deal with AT&T perhaps as soon as this week - many hope the iPhone will be made available through all US carriers soon. Hand it to Apple’s top brass to muddy the waters just a little bit…

Apple’s number two man, Tim Cook, (apparently in the running to abandon his comfy chair at the world’s leading technology company to go lead some ailing US car maker, called General Motors [Update: he didn't take the job]) put the ‘fus’ in obfustication when commenting on AT&T during last night’s financial call.

Asked about the exclusive deal, Cook said, “AT&T has acknowledged having some issues in certain cities, and they have detailed plans for addressing these. We have personally reviewed these and have very high confidence that they will make progress in fixing them.”

Cook observed that criticism of AT&T’s 3G coverage shouldn’t lose sight of just how many customers the network has. “It’s important to remember that [AT&T has] more mobile broadband users than any other carrier in the world. In the vast majority of locations, we think iPhone customers are having a great experience,” Cook said.

As a UK-based writer enjoying the benefits of a more liberal carrier strategy here (such as being able to use a network with better coverage), I do hope Cook’s statements don’t imply that US iPhone lovers will be stuck with just one network.

We’ll see…

[Thanks: http://www.9to5mac.com]

Google Voice Finally Gets to the IPhone With Browser App

Google has found a way to let iPhone owners use Google Voice, the telephony management service whose iPhone-specific application Apple rejected last year.

On Tuesday, Google is launching a Google Voice Web application that runs on iPhone devices with the 3.0 OS or later versions, as well as on Palm WebOS devices.

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