“T-Mobile subscribers may finally get their shot at the iPhone, according to one analyst,” Lance Whitney reports for CNET.

“The carrier could ‘announce official iPhone distribution in early 2013,’ according to Morgan Stanley analyst Nick Delfas,” Whitney reports. “The analyst provided no further details but said that such a deal would add another one to two million buyers of the iPhone 5 in the first quarter.”

Whitney reports, “T-Mobile is the only one of the four major U.S. carriers without custody of the iPhone. In May, the company announced that it would spend $4 billion to ramp up its 4G LTE network, giving it the ability to carry the iPhone 5 in more markets… Buoyed by the launch of the iPhone 5, Apple may have sold 25 million iPhones in the third quarter, Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty said in an investors note yesterday. But she admitted this estimate is a conservative one, so the actual numbers may prove higher.”

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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers "Fred Mertz" and "Dan K." for the heads up.]