“The largest U.S. wireless carrier will make the long-awaited announcement at an event Tuesday in New York City, a person familiar with the matter said Friday,” Raice and Kane report. “The move will for the first time let U.S. consumers choose the network that carries their iPhone and perhaps give them additional pricing options that could affect their monthly bills. It wasn’t immediately clear when Verizon would have the device in stores. The Verizon phone will be similar to the iPhone 4 but run on the carrier’s CDMA technology, people familiar with the matter have said.”
“AT&T has had the iconic device to itself since its introduction in June 2007,” Raice and Kane report. “Since then, the iPhone has fueled much of the carrier’s subscriber growth and has given it a solid lead in smartphone customers.”
Raice and Kane report, “While Verizon’s network is popularly perceived to be better than AT&T’s, it has yet to be tested by the heavy volume of data use that accompanies the iPhone. The carrier has been strengthening and testing its network for months to avoid the public relations nightmare AT&T has suffered from, one person familiar has said.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Fellow Americans, our long national nightmare will soon be over! Verizon customers will have no reason to settle for pretend iPhones!
MDN, you’ve been trumpeting this since, well since 2007…but I would be the first to congratulate you if this news turns out to be true.
Yip yip yip yipeeeeeee!
I have been dealing with a trashy Droid (1) waiting for this!!!!!!!
“Fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over!”
Uh, no.
http://watch.bnn.ca/#clip384325
Funny bone free zone today!
Hmmmm … CDMA … and some people said Apple never would make an iPhone for a dead end tech. Some people should stop trying to guess what Steve Jobs is going to do!
I am surprised though that this is a Verizon event and not an Apple one.
What about the nightmare for Sprint/Nextel and T-Mobile customers, it continues on.
In Canada all three major carriers carry the IPhone, our options still sucks.
I will stay w. ATT, thanks. VZ IP4 will release BW and put some price pressure benefitting customers.
Agree here w. MDN: there will be no more excuses and real comparison between iOS and Android can now happen.
This is very good news for consumers!
Please bring out the dual core 1GB RAM Droid monsters. I don’t want that cookie cutter fisher price wannabe phone.
@nightfly
Along with some smaller carriers too (admittedly aligned with one of the big ones)
Yes, more droid monsters, I love those Soviet iphones!
@ A Concerned Friend
Your link requires Adobe Crash, so your input was not recvd by me
Gosh I can’t wait to see what excuse folks come up with if the holy Verizon can’t handle the traffic. I have no issues with AT&T. Verizon is a terrible company to deal with.
bob,
Verizon is terrible? Worse than the lowest ranked ATT?????
It ain’t over ’til the fat sweaty Monkey Boy sings.
“Developers, developers”, etc. ad infinitum.
Verizon sucks. I hope all carriers get to have an iPhone because Verizon is the worst carrier and don’t deserve any exclusive deal.
I’ll stay with AT&T
I have to call and leave a message with my sister and her verizon “coverage” when she’s 30 ft from me.
but she claims AT&T has no coverage here…
If verizon is to get the iphone, great.
But lets hope that Verizon does NOT put all that crapware on it like they always do.
how much you want to bet the Verizon iPhone, being CDMA, will NOT be able to talk on the phone, and well… do anything else other than talk.
I dont care if all carriers get the iPhone, i just hope Apple can force them to keep the iPhone as clean as it is on the rest of the carriers around the world.
I can just see Verizon putting a bunch of Verizon branded apps you cant delete, or restricting the iPhone’s abilities.
Its what verizon does to all their phones, restrict and bloat.
Can you imagine Apple releasing a iOS update. and Verizon has to wait a few weeks for it to be cleared for verizon’s network?… iTunes would see the iPhone as Verizon, and it wouldnt be available until its cleared/edited by Verizon. bloatware apps updated or added, etc.
Pretend iPhone? I don’t see anybody pretending to be an iPhone. I see a very good product that is giving Apple a real run for it’s money and I don’t see the iPhone going to Verizon changing the fact that Apple has some REAL competition. We’ll just wait and see after the initial fuss dies down where the chips lie.
@Backlash The phone will not be able to talk and do anything else via CDMA. It is a limitation of network and has nothing to do with the iPhone.
IF somehow LTE is somewhere on the phone then it would be able to surf and talk, but that is a BIG if!
I am going to be VERY VERY VERY pissed at Apple though if this turns out to be a secondary exclusive contract with Verizon and blocks the availability of a Sprint and T-Mobile phone. I can possibly take another 6 months (contract renewal time) but not another 3-4 years.
This may not be worth mentioning but when talking with T-Mobile reps they report that they are already receiving in micro sims like the ones the iPhone uses. That will be my luck. Everyone will get it BUT Sprint.
Who knows, it’s all speculation until it’s fact!
I would rather see all carriers get the iPhone now.
the Exclusivity with AT&T (while normal in the industry) is a problem.
Like i said before, i have no desire to leave AT&T. I vacation in places that ONLY AT&T has coverage… Its the reason i picked Cingular when i left Verizon.
@ob1spyker
I knew CDMA had the limitations, I wasn’t meaning talk AND surf… I was meaning talk, and ANYTHING. in a call, press the home button and it will probably end the call. If they do allow the call to be minimized (or whatever its officially called) the possibility of the person to open any app that *may* access the data network… may cause the call quality to deter, or just end..
Only time will tell what the Verizon iPhone will be like.
I work for T-Mobile and I haven’t heard anything about iPhone or micro sims coming in. I’m not saying it’s not happening, but I’ve not seen it yet. Believe me… I want T-Mobile to get it too! I would just mean more $$ for me and my company! Having said that… I really love my Android and I’m not loosing any sleep having given up my iPhone 3 months ago. I love getting to play with all of these great new tech tools that are coming out and look forward to the new LG Opitmus X2 coming in a month or two. Now that will be a bad ass phone!
Ahhhhh, finally relief from my hemadroid.
No more burning and itching!
Mr. Stock, meet $360+…
Im gonna stick with AT&T ,
Why? 2 reasons :
1. Since May of 2010 , when I got the iPhone , I have yet to have a problem
With at &t , I’m in Philadelphia, and am happy with my service ….
2. Once verizon gets the iPhone , their gonna have alot more traffic
On their network , from AT&T defectors, and also obviously , from new iPhone
Owners currently on Big Red…….
As I understand it, ATT 3G is faster, but Verizon 3G is available over a much broader area. Given this, ATT should stay strong in Metro areas for people who do not travel much. Verizon should be big in rural and more remote areas, and for those who travel.
4G is launching in Metro areas, but will not be deployed over much of the country for another couple of years.
I did a 1,900 mile road trip across the midwest on I-80 and had poor or no ATT coverage on my iPad for most of the trip, but my Verizon phone showed a good EVDO signal most of the way. 1x does not cut it for accessing the Web on any network.
For those of us who do not live in Metro areas, 3G data coverage is our main concern for now, until 4G gets deployed into the hinterlands. ATT didn’t manage to do too well with 3G so I wonder how well they will do with 4G, but what they do does seem to be faster than Verizon.
This should be interesting as it sorts itself out over the next couple of years.