Charles Dunstone, CEO of Carphone Warehouse, a European retailer of mobile phones and services, claimed that Apple’s servers needs to be deeply integrated into the operator’s network. At an annual results webcast, Dunstone was responding to a question on whether his company had been into discussions with Apple regarding the implementation of the iPhone in Europe, or if there would be a network-specific deal like in the US. His answer was:

“It has to be in some form a deal with a network, because the way the iPhone works requires the operator to install a lot of servers and stuff deep into the network to supply some of the services to it. So if you buy the phone, say on Cingular in the US, and put a T-Mobile SIM [card] in it, it won’t work properly because T-Mobile won’t have all this proprietary stuff. So the first thing they have to do is do a deal with a network. I don’t think they’ve done that yet.”

We knew Cingular had to modify their network to accommodate the iPhone functionalities, but integrating servers from Apple is another story. Let’s hope the debugging of those pieces of software have been very well done. Testing the client side of a system is one thing, but testing the server side without the load it will have to handle is something else.

Source:
iPhoneFreak

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