Via Sozo's Blog: "Apple is conducting high-level discussions with Verizon Wireless to sell a version of the iPhone that would work on Verizon’s network, which could be available as soon as next year.
AT&T has exclusive rights to the iPhone until 2010 and is doing all it can to remain the exclusive carrier. You may recall that he iPhone catapulted At&t ahead of it's competitors as the iPhone because insanely popular adding 1.6 million new iPhone customers in the first quarter of sales.
Verizon, meanwhile, has done fine without the iPhone and recently purchased alltel, making it the leader in the cellular market with more than 80 million customers. If Verizon was to begin offering the iPhone — whether exclusively or as a competitor to AT&T — it would be a significant development in the increasingly important battle for smartphone users, said Roger Entner, an industry analyst with Nielsen AIG. It would give Verizon, which sells Samsung, Palm and BlackBerry smartphones, another device to lure subscribers who do not prefer the AT&T network.
“The iPhone turned AT&T into a serious competitor now neck-in-neck with Verizon,” he said. If Verizon gets a contract to sell the iPhone, he said, “it will be another major shift.”
So, all you Verizon lovers out there, hang on your iPhone just might be around the corner."
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1 comments:
No one really knows how long the Apple/AT&T exclusivity agreement is for' it was confidential. I doubt his person has any inside info when no one else does.
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