| Verizon customers with iPhone envy may finally get | | | | would need to be overhauled, and it doesn't look like |
| a chance to own one of these famous devices. The | | | | that will happen anytime soon. Although customers |
| Wall Street Journal reports that Apple is developing a | | | | may overlook this missing feature, AT&T will still |
| Verizon-compatible version of the iPhone, rumored to | | | | have Verizon beat with their other smartphones. |
| debut as early as this summer. If the news is true, | | | | Even without GSM and talk-and-text features, |
| AT&T will lose the exclusivity contract it has | | | | Verizon's popular and dedicated network may help |
| held with Apple for three years – a fact that | | | | them retain their current customers and acquire even |
| won't help in the fight between AT&T and | | | | more from AT&T and other carriers. Back in |
| Verizon. If Verizon does start carrying its own iPhone | | | | 2007 when the iPhone was first released, 25 percent |
| model, will AT&T be able to compete, or is the | | | | of iPhone buyers switched to AT&T from |
| move to Verizon a sign that AT&T can no | | | | another network, writes CrunchGear. Who's to say |
| longer sustain the iPhone on its own? | | | | those 25 percent – and everyone who has |
| Verizon boasts an impressive network, with nearly 6 | | | | switched since then – won't switch again, this |
| million more customers than AT&T, even | | | | time to Verizon? "There is undoubtedly enormous |
| without the iPhone. Over the past year, it's been no | | | | pent-up demand for the iPhone on Verizon's superior |
| secret that AT&T's network has become | | | | network," a Bernstein Research analyst told |
| overloaded, coming to a head when Apple briefly | | | | MarketWatch. "iPhone availability will therefore mean |
| paused iPhone sales in New York City. When a | | | | an immediate acceleration for Verizon's subscriber |
| compatible model is finally available, Verizon will have | | | | growth and, conversely, immediate share losses for |
| a reliable network and some of the most popular | | | | AT&T." |
| smartphones around – RIM's BlackBerry devices | | | | "…Regardless of how many customers either side |
| and the iPhone make up 68 percent of the U.S. | | | | gains or loses, the real winner will be Apple," writes |
| smartphone market – making it hard for | | | | WSJ's Martin Peers. With competition heating up with |
| AT&T or any other carrier to compete. | | | | the Droid, Nexus One, and the coming HTC Evo, |
| A big concern over Verizon's adoption is user | | | | Apple's expansion to Verizon will continue to give it a |
| experience — an area where Verizon could be | | | | healthy advantage in the wireless market. With the |
| inferior to AT&T. Verizon operates on a CDMA | | | | iPhone's Verizon debut, could the iPad come next? As |
| network, while AT&T uses a wireless | | | | long as Verizon continues to... |
| technology called GSM, which allows for AT&T's | | | | To read more about Verizon's iPhone, go to Sparxoo, |
| biggest selling point – the ability to surf the web | | | | a digital marketing, branding and business develoment |
| and talk on the phone at the same time. For Verizon | | | | blog. |
| to offer the same feature, all CDMA technology | | | | |