Hooray for VZ subscribers!!!

[julie*mango]

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Apple Inc. will launch its popular iPhone with Verizon Wireless as early as January, according to a media report Tuesday, which cited unnamed sources as confirming that widely anticipated step.


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In a Bloomberg News report, two unnamed sources described as familiar with the plans were said to have confirmed that Apple (AAPL 256.20, +0.03, +0.01%) would expand iPhone domestic availability to Verizon (VZ 28.64, +0.02, +0.07%) early next year. The device has been available exclusively over AT&T's (T 24.44, -0.02, -0.08%) networks in the U.S. since its launch three years ago.

Wall Street analysts have widely expected a launch at Verizon at some point in 2011. Jeff Kvaal of Barclays Capital wrote in a research note Tuesday that the move would happen sometime in the first quarter.

"We believe the iPhone would be a plus for Verizon, but not a significant industry change, given the relative stickiness of smart-phone customers, as the primary source of Verizon iPhone [subscriptions] would be pent-up demand by existing Verizon [subscribers]," he wrote.

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[Xavier]

Re: Hooray for VZ subscribers!!!

Finally another option. This is good news.

[julie*mango]

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good news indeed! i wanna get an Iphone but I will miss my peeps on BBM

[kia027]

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their network will become choked too

[j-kid]

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Verizon LTE + iPhone = iPhone 4G?

If the Apple iPhone doesn't migrate soon to Verizon Wireless, the world will spin off its axis. Those 2012 doomsday predictions will come true. Antidepressant usage among iPhone-craving Verizon customers will rise exponentially.

Well, you can stop worrying and put back the pills. Because after months of rumors, rumblings, and rants, including this week's vaguely sourced scooplet from Bloomberg, it almost seems like a done deal: The iPhone will at long last shake off the shackles of AT&T exclusivity and come to Verizon.

It's Coming

If, like me, you adhere to the where-there's-smoke-there's-a-better-data-network philosophy, there are valid reasons to believe the Verizon iPhone rumors. After all, tech analysts, often the source of these reports, get their information from industry and supply chain insiders. So let's jump ahead and assume the Verizon iPhone is going to happen sometime next year. And given Verizon's upcoming launch of its new LTE 4G data network, it's conceivable that the carrier's first Apple handset could very well be a 4G-capable device. (The new iPhone 4 runs on AT&T's 3G network.)

IDC mobile phone analyst Ramon Llamas also spots a possible convergence between the iPhone and Verizon's 4G. "Am I saying the iPhone will be LTE? I'm not a hundred percent sure," he says. "But the timing says to me that it's possible."

Faster, Better

An iPhone 4G--or whatever moniker Steve Jobs and his marketing gurus select--would no doubt prove a media bonanza for both companies. What better handset than the trend-setting iPhone to showcase Verizon's super-fast LTE network, which the carrier says is delivering downstream speeds of 8.55M bps in some tests?

As for Apple, a 4G data network might unleash many of the iPhone's dormant capabilities. Example: the new FaceTime video chat feature, currently limited to iPhone 4 models connected to Wi-Fi networks, might be freed to operate via LTE as well, thereby allowing video chats in many more situations.

There's a potential scheduling problem, however. The timing of Verizon's LTE rollout, slated for a late 2010, doesn't jive with Apple's annual iPhone launch, which dictates that a new model shall appear every summer.

Apple could rush an LTE-ready iPhone to market, but that's not Cupertino's style. "Using history as our guide, it seems that every June is the time for the new Apple iPhone to roll out," says Llamas.

Of course, since AT&T also plans to roll out its own LTE network next year, the iPhone 4G could debut simultaneously on both AT&T and Verizon. Ah, the possibilities.

Contact Jeff Bertolucci via Twitter (@jbertolucci ) or at jbertolucci.blogspot.com

[SandiF]

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it's a rumour

[Dr.Dudd]

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In your head.

Yes it is a rumour in your mind.

Though I So tchsnge my android system for the iPhone When it comes.

I always have a phone That mist people don't even know.

like the audiovox phones I had for so many years.

They are built like a tank .

I like them like that.

One fell off the roof of a triple Decker once and still work for another year. <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SandiF</div><div class="ubbcode-body">it's a rumour </div></div>

[SandiF]

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It is a rumour until Apple and Verizon spokespeople confirm it.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dr.Dudd</div><div class="ubbcode-body">In your head.

Yes it is a rumour in your mind.

Though I So tchsnge my android system for the iPhone When it comes.

I always have a phone That mist people don't even know.

like the audiovox phones I had for so many years.

They are built like a tank .

I like them like that.

One fell off the roof of a triple Decker once and still work for another year. <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SandiF</div><div class="ubbcode-body">it's a rumour </div></div> </div></div>

[Wendy]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SandiF</div><div class="ubbcode-body">it's a rumour </div></div>

I heard about it on the news Sandif – dem a talk bout a September release or there about.

Anyway even dowe it a come to VZ … mi still will not own one. Mi sticking to the evil mi know that works

[Dr.Dudd]

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If the iPhone does not get on the Verizon network the android phones will make them in a fringe product t like the apple computer or a passing fad.<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: WeNdY</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SandiF</div><div class="ubbcode-body">it's a rumour </div></div>

I heard about it on the news Sandif – dem a talk bout a September release or there about.

Anyway even dowe it a come to VZ … mi still will not own one. Mi sticking to the evil mi know that works
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[Pepper]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SandiF</div><div class="ubbcode-body">it's a rumour </div></div>

That's what I figure too. This isn't the first time the rumor has surfaced either.

I too will believe it when its in writing.