Comments on: Who Really Benefits from iPhone on Verizon Rumors?

By: JT Long

JT Long — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:42:49 +0000

Heres an Idea…..We all hold the power to Verizon and to the iphone. How about dropping both of them temporarily. When your contract expires with AT&T, go with a non AT&T pre paid phone. When you contract ends with Verizon, go with a non Verizon pre paid phone. If we all quit putting money in their pockets they will come together and give us what we all want. Within 6 months I bet we would see a Verizon iphone.

By: dowork

dowork — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:07:25 +0000

If Apple has any brains whatsoever they have the power to become the standard device for all wireless carriers the world is there to take what are u waiting for Apple???

By: Grant

Grant — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:59:05 +0000

All I get in my town is Verizon and U.S Cellular…I use verizon and travel alot and it works great. I also have a friend who is a truck driver and using the i-phone but can never use it unless he is in a big city.

By: Loner

Loner — Mon, 04 May 2009 07:30:21 +0000

@ LolipopJones: real speeds for HSPA+ is going to be 14mbs not 48 as AT&T doesn’t have the spectrum for such speeds. The real kicker here is that AT&T will not be making their whole network 3.5g as it will cost way too much and there is no point to it in smaller towns or rural areas. Verizon on the other hand will always have EVDO in all of their markets due to the tech just being a change out of a few pieces of tech. In the end it wont matter who gets the iphone as I will just take my service to them and oh AT&T’s 2.5/3g service sucks as i get GPRS in certain areas.

By: fassy

fassy — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:25:53 +0000

I wonder what the Verizon-Microsoft planned yet-another-iphone-killer device does for the iphone/verizon rumors…

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124093915558664239.html

By: iphoneer

iphoneer — Sun, 03 May 2009 12:57:53 +0000

I just bought an iPhone and switched from Verizon to ATT…..I love the Skype app and the JigSee game. I hate ATT.

By: LolipopJones

LolipopJones — Sun, 03 May 2009 06:39:44 +0000

Also no LTE phone on Verizon will be a true LTE phone. They are going to be Gateway devices where it roams LTE and EVDO.

ATT wants to progress HSDPA so that the speeds will be more comparable to LTE. VZW does not intend to upgrade Evdo at ALL! SO this means where LTE is not available you will be on a slow *** outdate 3g network vs where LTE is not available for ATT they will be on ATT’s 3G which they plan to progress to HSDPA+ which should get up to speeds of 48mbs….

Verizon’s transition to LTE is not going to be as easy or as smooth as they think. HSDPA+ is going to murder EVDO 3g even worse then it does now. The question will be how many people will be in VzW’s LTE blanket and vs how many will be in their 3g coverage area. ATT is going to invest 5 billion into their network while VzW is going to invest 6 billion to build their network. LTE IS NOT COMPATIBLE with CDMA unlike GSM so this is going to be a very interesting Debacle.

By: Will

Will — Sun, 03 May 2009 04:37:12 +0000

Thanks Jones, I Was Gunna Mention The Alltel Acquisition Myself.

Verizon Sucks In St. Louis. I Only Know Two People On Verizon and They Constantly Have Dropped Calls.

Last, AT&T Will Have A 4G Network Soon Too, so Who Cares If Verizon Does A Little Earlier. Apple Didnt Mind Using The Edge Network Way After It Was Obselete.

By: LolipopJones

LolipopJones — Sat, 02 May 2009 16:12:14 +0000

Actaully JB the last tech talk i was involved in Vodafone is pushing VzW to make their network compliant with Vodafone's. Meaning that any device that can be used on Vodafone can be used on VzW's.

The problem is you people seem to not understand is Selling a phone is not one way to make profit for a Manufacturer. Apple has made its name off of the Quality and the CONTROL of their products. ATT makes 13 dollars per activation of an iPhone while Apple makes 17 dollars, Apple makes 30% of the cost of an app, and then the iPhone pretty much sells iTunes.

The point is Apple makes all the profit on the phone. Its more profitable because each phone sold continues to add revenue. VzW on the other hand doesn't want the iPhone.. they want an iPhone killer. The last RM's meeting the statement was "Why would we have a phone that would generate us ZERO addition profit?".

We also have to look at does Apple want to make a CDMA/LTE gateway device? To the statement that "It's not hard to swap a GSM radio for CDMA chipset." that adds cost to the manufacturer. That means the manufacturer has to make two seperate model phones one for LTE/GSM carriers and one for LTE/CDMA which if i might add only one carrier in the world is CDMA/LTE.

Also for the point of VzW is the biggest blah blah blah. When Apple offered VzW the iPhone VzW had a much SMALLER customer base then ATT at the time. VzW did not become larger then ATT until the Alltel acquisition.

By: JB

JB — Sat, 02 May 2009 14:04:13 +0000

Some of you need to do your home work, LTE will bring an iphone to VZW, big red has sent execs to meet with Apple on an LTE (4G) device, this device will most likely not see the light of day until 2011 but I assure you it is in the works. It will be tri-mode with LTE, HSPA and EV-DO Rev. B, apple will gladly make one for a CDMA carrier, they went to them first, by the way it is not hard to swap a GSM radio for a CDMA chipset. Thx