Archive New iPhone Could End AT&T's U.S. Monopoly

imex99

Posts: 4,927

Mar 29, 2010 10:43pm

If the Wall Street Journal is correct, AT&T’s iPhone monopoly is guaranteed to fizzle out at the end of this summer. According to people “briefed on the matter” a special CDMA version of the iPhone will be made starting this September by Pegatron Technology Corp., a subsidiary of ASUSTeK Computer Inc. To which company will this CDMA device be headed? None other than Verizon Wireless. Yeah. Holy crap. Definitely a blow to AT&T, but on the bright side, it too will be getting a new model, built once again by Hon Hai Precision Industry Co and most likely in June.

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/03/29/wsj-verizon-definitely-getting-the-iphone/

UA5straightin2008

Posts: 3,246

Mar 29, 2010 10:47pm

i knew it!

wes_mantooth

Posts: 17,977

Mar 29, 2010 10:52pm

If the Iphone and Nexus One are both on Verizon.....Verizon will then have the monopoly.

gerb131

Posts: 9,932

Mar 29, 2010 10:53pm

Mmmm. I love my ASUS netbook if the phone is .10 as good as this machine they have hit the jackpot.

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I Wear Pants

Posts: 16,223

Mar 29, 2010 10:53pm

I'm still skeptical. I find it hard to believe that they'd make a CDMA version with LTE so close.

stroups

Posts: 3,223

Mar 29, 2010 11:04pm

I have been waiting for this for a long, long time.............. I think I just

UA5straightin2008

Posts: 3,246

Mar 29, 2010 11:05pm

^^ fail

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raiderbuck

Posts: 1,623

Mar 29, 2010 11:09pm

stroups wrote: I have been waiting for this for a long, long time.............. I think I just

I guess we'll have to wait longer?

LMAO

Stiffman

Posts: 512

Mar 29, 2010 11:15pm

From what I've read, LTE (4G) is to have capability that would allow users to seamlessly switch between LTE and 3G/2G (whether GSM or CDMA based) systems. That said, there's no reason to delay deployment of an i-Phone for Verizon if the expectation is that it will enhance its smartphone suite, which is an easy assumption to make. Actually, I wouldn't call that an assumption at all.

Stiffman

Posts: 512

Mar 29, 2010 11:17pm

raiderbuck wrote:
stroups wrote: I have been waiting for this for a long, long time.............. I think I just

I guess we'll have to wait longer?

LMAO

Premature Ejaculation?

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I Wear Pants

Posts: 16,223

Mar 30, 2010 12:13am

Stiffman wrote: From what I've read, LTE (4G) is to have capability that would allow users to seamlessly switch between LTE and 3G/2G (whether GSM or CDMA based) systems. That said, there's no reason to delay deployment of an i-Phone for Verizon if the expectation is that it will enhance its smartphone suite, which is an easy assumption to make. Actually, I wouldn't call that an assumption at all.

Yeah but Apple doesn't give a shit about Verizon. They care about Apple and ATT is probably providing some really nice incentives for them to stay exclusive to ATT stateside.

3reppom

Posts: 765

Mar 30, 2010 12:30am

Verizon is far and away the largest wireless network in the US. To say that Apple would want to get into that market is an understatement. It's a an easy call for Apple to get the iPhone on Verizon which controls close to 50 percent of the 3rd largest mobile market in the world.

justincredible

Posts: 32,056

Mar 30, 2010 6:23am

Can't wait until I can get out of my AT&T contract and still use an iphone. Our service is shit in our house and we don't have a landline so we are constantly missing calls.

THE4RINGZ

Posts: 16,816

Mar 30, 2010 10:17am

From my conversation with a higher level Verizon employee, Apple wanted too much control over the iPhone distribution during initial negotiations with Verizon. Verizon saw there was no money to be made under the agreements Apple wanted, so they walked away.

Now if another maker can distribute iPhone technology and distribute through Verizon's network which has a larger network with better coverage AT&T could be in trouble.

Fab1b

Posts: 12,949

Mar 30, 2010 11:04am

I guess I am in the minority that AT&T is just fine with my Iphone. The only thing I want on the Iphone is live TV, like FloTv or something. I had heard Flo was coming to the Iphone in 2010 sometime.

j_crazy

Posts: 8,372

Mar 30, 2010 11:10am

I'm such a noob. But it is my understanding that Verizon's Iphone will still have the verizon 3G flaw, slow and can't talk and surf. I don't mind that my Iphone only has 3G in cerain areas because 80% of the places where I don't have 3G there is at least Edge and a wifi hotspot.

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GeneralsIcer89

Posts: 281

Mar 30, 2010 11:15am

Verizon wanted to control the OS of the iPhone, as they want to do with all of their phones. Apple would never let that happen. Once that control is removed, it ceases to be an Apple product in their eyes. I'd agree with them. I don't want Verizon having any part of the OS on the phone.

pmoney25

Posts: 1,787

Mar 30, 2010 11:26am

Htc evo from Sprint will destroy iphone. Even the hd2 from tmobile is faster, larger screen,higher resolution. Although hd2 runs windows mobile it is sweet. The evo will run android, 8 mp camera, 4g, fastest processor,largest screen on market. Amazing phone.

Check out some youtube videos on the hd2.

brutus161

Posts: 1,686

Mar 30, 2010 11:29am

pmoney25 wrote: Htc evo from Sprint will destroy iphone. Even the hd2 from tmobile is faster, larger screen,higher resolution. Although hd2 runs windows mobile it is sweet. The evo will run android, 8 mp camera, 4g, fastest processor,largest screen on market. Amazing phone.

Check out some youtube videos on the hd2.

Many have said that their product is better than Apple's (insert any handheld device), and all have gone by the wayside.

OneBuckeye

Posts: 5,888

Mar 30, 2010 11:32am

pmoney25 wrote: Htc evo from Sprint will destroy iphone. Even the hd2 from tmobile is faster, larger screen,higher resolution. Although hd2 runs windows mobile it is sweet. The evo will run android, 8 mp camera, 4g, fastest processor,largest screen on market. Amazing phone.

Check out some youtube videos on the hd2.

It may be better but how much HTC fanboys are there? Probably not as many as Apple fanboys, Apple has the majority of the smartphone market, they won't be knocked off too easily.

http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/03/25/smartphone-traffic-is-up-193-in-a-year/

Thunder70

Posts: 748

Mar 30, 2010 11:36am

here is some info regarding a new app that will allow iphone users to make free calls via the internet. could change the wireless phone industry...

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2830928/iphone_users_discover_free_calling.html

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I Wear Pants

Posts: 16,223

Mar 30, 2010 11:37am

THE4RINGZ wrote: From my conversation with a higher level Verizon employee, Apple wanted too much control over the iPhone distribution during initial negotiations with Verizon. Verizon saw there was no money to be made under the agreements Apple wanted, so they walked away.

Now if another maker can distribute iPhone technology and distribute through Verizon's network which has a larger network with better coverage AT&T could be in trouble.

Except there was an incredible amount of money to be made.

THE4RINGZ

Posts: 16,816

Mar 30, 2010 12:05pm

The majority of the money was going to by Apple not Verizon thus they walked away.