Well, as a Verizon Wireless customer, increasingly-avid Mac user, and resident of a spot with no AT&T wireless coverage, I certainly hope so. I've seen a number of stories lately about how the exclusive (and still secret) iPhone distribution agreement between Apple and AT&T comes to an end next year, and how (duh) AT&T would love to keep the exclusive. But Verizon has around 80 million subscribers, about the same as AT&T, and Apple just has to be tempted (and perhaps even salivating) by reaching the 20% or so (my guess) of those who would likely go with the iPhone given relatively little incentive. It's unlikely that Apple would see that kind of volume from incremental sales with AT&T alone. So the big question is how much AT&T is willing to pay to keep the iPhone out of the hands of its only real competitor. And the little question is how difficult it will be to engineer an EvDO version, but that can't be too hard. In fact, I'd be surprised if it's not been done already.
I have been a fan of the iPhone since its inception, although I don't like the non-removable battery and Apple's rigid control over what gets to run on it. But I'd almost surely get one if Verizon offered it - no matter how good the other platform phones might be, there really is no substitute for the iPhone today, and it's difficult to imagine how any other handset could compete with its aura. That means, instead, that the other handset manufacturers need to compete on price, and consequently a veritable flood of LINUX-based platform phones just has to be on the menu for next year - around the time an iPhone for Verizon could become available. My prediction is, yes, Verizon will get the iPhone. And the price is going down regardless - if a price war between AT&T and Verizon doesn't do it, the LINUX guys will scrape a good number of iPhone wannahaves off the bottom of the market, and Apple won't sit still for that.
Mathias is a principal at Farpoint Group, a wireless advisory firm in Ashland, Mass.
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iPhone and Verizon ?
With the Verizon stupidity of only offering 2 possible phones that and a blackberry, they probably won't think they need to even offer the iPhone. We have zero AT&T service here and I hate the current samsung I have from verizon. So I'm switching to Sprint when they get the PRE. By the time Verizon gets off their axx and have a good phone to offer we'll all be gone to Sprint and the Pre and won't care about an iPhone any more.
Yeah well Sprint network is
Yeah well Sprint network is horrible and their customer service is terrible. So good luck leaving your Verizon Network and downgrade to Sprint.
I hope Sprint gets it.
I hope Sprint gets it. Verizon is terrible. Verizon is good if you want coverage in a corn field in Podunk Any State. However Sprint has the best network and already has 4G is some areas with the pans for alot more by the end of this year. If Mac is smart they will go with Sprint!
Sprint, oh please, their
Sprint, oh please, their service is so bad people would learn to hate the iPhone
It depends on where you live
It depends on where you live and work. At my home and work AT&T is the best option - Sprint doesn't work at all at my home, Verizon fades out on the drive to work. I guess I was lucky and yes, I love the iPhone.
Verizon
I been with Verizon for seven years and never had a problem. No dropped calls, no service issues, nada. I am waiting with baited breath for the iphone to appear! I'm all over it!
sick dude
sick dude
AT&T
Since AT&T bought singular and changed their network, it sux... (hasn't even earned a cked, just an X). I have all 3 major carriers in the us and I'd rate them this way, Verizon #1, Sprint #2 and AT&T #3. Many people don't know that Sprint and Nextel have been riding Verizon's backbone for years in data and wireless and It wouldn't surprise me to see a Merger for wireless for those companies before 2009 is done. Who am I all might inquire? Well just keep your eyes on the prizes and when the merger happens, you'll Keep looking for DocCuzi to get the 411 on all affairs.
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