What are the pros and cons of Apple becoming a USA mobile operator?

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Depends on what you really mean by mobile operator.

The proper definition of mobile operator is a company that operates a mobile network, including but not limited to, the whole network of radio cells, plus the whole network interconnecting them, plus the infra-telco agreements, plus the internet access, plus many other things.

Nobody wants to enter that market. The incumbents are there, and they’re not moving. They will merge and split but in the end the people are the same.

Now, there is one thing called “mobile virtual operator “ which is a company that rents one (or more) network, gets assigned some mobile prefix, and tries to provide some added value (or reduced profits and lower prices) out of the deal.
This is something quite feasible for many smaller companies, but quite easy for Apple to do. A MVNO is mostly marketing and advertisement, with not much on the technology side.
However, a MVNO usually rents the network from just one company. Technically it could rent the network from them all. Which takes me to the reason why Apple will not be a “mobile operator” – Apple already provoked the Tel cos by launching the iPhone, which was “accepted” because the old mobiles were not from the Telcos (even if they were branded), so Apple was competing with the mobile manufacturers and not with the Tel cos themselves. Apple already provoked the Telcos by pushing some requirements when in the past it would be the Tel cos dictating the rules.

If Apple would enter the mobile market, even if on top of all operators, the operators would feel threatened and would not accept the deal. Why would they risk losing their customers to Apple? Sure they would still make money out of the network, as Apple would be paying them, but the Tel cos do a lot of money out of side services and products that would quickly dry out. They already did, with Apple and Whats App and similar stuff, however by having an Apple Mobile operator, it would be the death of the Telcos and they would be relegated to simple infrastructure providers without access to the end user customers.

This is a war that neither Apple nor the Telcos want to go through.

It’s easy to see what any small attempt in this direction would cause to the markets. Just look at the so called “Apple SIM”, which is simply an advancement on SIM cards (the technology, not the card itself) where the card can be provisioned remotely (which has been possible for a long time, albeit only by the operator owning the SIM), whilst the generic SIM can be provisioned to any provider. And thus can be embedded on the system instead of wasting space with a card and a tray hole (and waterproof challenges). In the end, it’s a spec from the 3GPP guys, from the Telcos, and Apple was (probably) just the first one using it. Nothing changes besides being much easier to pick a telco and a plan after buying an iPhone from Apple or a 3rd party.

But no, people thought Apple was doing bad things.

This is akin to people complaining that Thunderbolt and Display Port and, almost, USB-C, to be “closed things from Apple”. The iphone Lightning cable and the MagSafe connector are proprietary. Everything else is standard.

So no, Apple won’t be a Telco. Likewise Apple won’t build a CPU like Intel (ARM is a completely different thing, as ARM is a spec, not a company or CPU).

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