“C Spire Wireless, a regional U.S. carrier with about 900,000 customers, revealed on Wednesday that it will be offering Apple’s new iPhone 4S ‘soon,’ making it the first smaller carrier in America to have access to Apple’s smartphone,” Slash Lane reports for AppleInsider.
“C Spire is a CDMA carrier like Verizon and Sprint,” Lane reports. “By adding the iPhone 4S to its lineup, it will be the fourth carrier in the U.S. to officially offer Apple’s new handset.”
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Lane reports that C Spire Wireless is “based in Ridgeland, Miss., and [serves] customers in Mississippi, Memphis, the Florida Panhandle, and parts of Alabama and Georgia.”
Read more in the full article here.
Sign of things to come
A big FU to T-mobile.
Hmm, Verizon, Sprint and the little guy are all CDMA… the only GSM carrier is US with iPhone is AT&T. T-Mobile is GSM, not CDMA. Could it be that AT&T is holding GSM iPhone release to T-Mobile back?
Yep. Apple is doing AT&T’s dirty work for them. Now if only somebody in the government could put and end to this monopolistic activity……
just my $0.02
And you know this to be incontrovertible fact how, exactly?
Please learn the technical facts before spouting off monopolistic conspiracies. There is a lot wrong with the cell phone industry, but you could not be more wrong in this particular case.
T-mobile is GSM, but it uses non-standard frequencies. Thus people with unlocked iPhones on the T-mobile network get crap download speeds.
Basically your iPhone 4S on T-mobile gets Edge network speeds. Have fun!
Exactly. The iPhone does not support UMTS frequencies. Unfortunately that means I can’t use it on my regional carrier, Cincinnati Bell (except at EDGE speeds). Which really sucks, because Cincy Bell has the best coverage, data speeds, plans, and prices in the area, by a wide margin.
T-Mobile uses different GSM frequencies than AT&T (some overlap, but some do not, so T-Mobile customers would not have coverage in those areas). It may be that Apple could not come to a deal with T-Mobile, and so did not include T-Mobile’s other frequencies in its radio chips.
Tim Cook is from Robertsdale, AL near Mobile. He did this so his parents could get an iPhone!
So Apple isn’t afraid of regional carriers eh? The day I see a phone on US Cellular is the day I switch back.
We’ve waited till US Cellular got the iPhone but can’t wait any longer. Just got the call about porting our numbers to ATT. Felt kind of guilty but didn’t want to wait forever.
Is there any evidence that this is an officially sanctioned/partnered carrier? Or will they just be re-selling unlocked CDMA iPhones and supporting them on their network?
C Spire has 500 minutes of voice and unlimited data for $50/month. Don’t know if they will keep that for the IPhone but I could move to the Florida panhandle and take advantage of that plan
Is this the start of a new thing on MDN? Example: Siri what do u think of bill gates? Siri: assshole