I was in the Berlin Wal-Mart and stopped by the Unicel kiosk. I asked the sales associate what was going on with the Verizon/Unicel/AT&T deal. He said that AT&T could be in the state as soon as November. The associate’s understanding was that once the Verizon/Unicel deal was free of imperial entanglements (i.e. state of Vermont regulators) Verizon would have 90 days to sell the towers off to AT&T.
“90 days to sell” is probably 90 days to start selling the towers and that will probably have to go through some sort of regulatory gymnastics at the Federal and state level, so iPhones for Christmas might be a reality.
