“Rumors of an iPhone deal between Verizon Wireless and Apple, bubbling since the fall, spiked again yesterday with another report that the biggest-selling smart-phone may be coming to the country’s biggest cell-phone carrier,” Paul Reynolds and Mike Gikas write for Consumer Reports Electronics Blog.
“If true—and who really knows, especially when it comes to secretive Apple?—the deal would have promise for consumers. In recommending the iPhone—in our smart-phone Ratings, available to subscribers—we’ve long made a caveat of the middling record of AT&T in our surveys of consumer satisfaction with cell-phone service, also available to subscribers. We’ve also pointed out that coverage for the 3G high-speed data networks that the newest iPhone, the 3G, uses are spottier for AT&T than for Verizon,” Reynolds and Gikas write.
“Even if the rumor pans out, a Verizon iPhone likely isn’t imminent. Even putting aside possible conflicts with AT&T’s current exclusivity deal with Apple, deployment could be at least six months to a year away because of the FCC’s and Verizon’s lengthy approval processes,” Reynolds and Gikas write.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Peter” for the heads up.]
