After the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Apple is indeed sending an iPhone 4 model into the production that would be CDMA/Verizon capable, they have since updated the story. Yesterday, the piece left open the possibility that Apple was simply developing a CDMA iPhone, and that it wouldn’t necessarily be coming to Verizon. Today, the WSJ has cleared up that bit of ambiguity by explicitly saying the iPhone is coming to Verizon.
Apple Inc. is making a version of its iPhone that Verizon Wireless will sell early next year, according to people familiar with the matter.
The report goes on to say that Apple and Verizon have been meeting and conducting tests on Verizon’s network to make sure it can handle the increased traffic on the network by iPhone customers. All of this is in an effort to avoid the same problems that AT&T has had coping with the iPhone traffic on their network.
The report also notes that Verizon didn’t allow the iPhone on their network before, due to Verizon’s insistence to have the ability to sell music and videos thought their own market. The report claims they don’t know whether Apple or Verizon gave in on this. I can guarantee it was Verizon. Apple wouldn’t dare have a marketplace on their devices that wasn’t their own, and they could totally control.
Lastly, the report states that Verizon will not have an unlimited data plans, but will instead have a tiered data plan similar to AT&T’s.
With the amount of detail that is in this report, and the fact that Apple usually deliberately leaks information the The WSJ, I have little doubt that this will be what we see come the beginning of next year.
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