Telcos Hold Key to Apple Tablet Sales

[Moritz Dispatch]

Scott Moritz
12/30/09 - 10:06 AM EST

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Apple's Tablet prospects hinge on phone
company charges.

In a research note Wednesday, Macquarie analyst Phil Cusick estimates
that the Apple Tablet will sell for about $800 and boost the company's
profit 5% next year. That projection calls for 3 to 5 million Tablets
to be sold, adding $559 million to the bottom line.

But stiff data service charges by telcos like Verizon or AT&T could
cool consumer desire for Apple's hotly anticipated touchscreen device,
aka the iPad or iSlate.

Click here for how the phone companies could mar the arrival of
Apple's twice delayed, overplayed Tablet:
http://www.thestreet.com/story/10653933/1/telcos-hold-key-to-apple-tablet-sales.html