http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/16-02/ff_iphone?currentPage=1

But by the end of the push, just weeks before Macworld, Jobs had a prototype to show to the suits at AT&T. In mid-December 2006, he met wireless boss Stan Sigman at a suite in the Four Seasons hotel in Las Vegas. He showed off the iPhone’s brilliant screen, its powerful Web browser, its engaging user interface. Sigman, a taciturn Texan steeped in the conservative engineering traditions that permeate America’s big phone companies, was uncharacteristically effusive, calling the iPhone “the best device I have ever seen.”

Poorly sourced, but engaging article about how the iPhone changes the way people and carriers think about cellular devices. Hopefully it won’t be long before the US catches up with the rest of the world.