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Originally Posted by ocbizlaw
Can anybody provide a rational business reason why Verizon would do this? It makes no sense to me.
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Yes.
Alltel has an exclusivity agreement with RIM for the Thunder that gives them sole rights to the device provided they sell enough of them to meet RIM's defined quota.
So if your VWZ and you have more faith in Blackberry devices than you do WM then does it make sense to sell real competition to your new 'flagship' phone?
But they don't want to be seen as not offering it, and to the uninformed there will be no "real" difference (though we all know better).. so that all said, it makes perfect business sense to cripple it.