Will the iPhone ever come to Verizon?

Rumors have it, since the Apple iPhone was first launched that Verizon Wireless could get its own version of the popular device. But whether the iPhone will be able to come to where the Verizon network?

Maybe. Executive Director of Verizon, Ivan Seidenberg hinted that Verizon may offer on your iPhone 4G wireless networks, which the company plans to begin construction next year, in an interview with Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal. In particular, Seidenberg said that if Verizon were to offer iPhone, it’s likely that will be posted on its 4G wireless network, rather than the current CDMA-based mobile phone network.

Now, I know that it is not iron-clad proof, but it’s something.

Seidenberg added that Apple will “seriously consider making a CDMA version of iPhone, because it did not have a wide spread of opportunity”, the article said. However, he clarified that the new Verizon network will use the 4G technology LTE, or long-term evolution, which also occurs on the same technology that AT & T eventually plans to use its network for 4G.

While this may be true that Apple chose to work with AT & T, as it uses GSM, technology, the majority of the global cellular phone companies use, there are also reports that Verizon is indeed abandoned the iPhone, because he was not ready to relinquish control as much as AT & T was. And these people will argue that this fact was the reason that the real iPhone Apple struck an exclusive deal with AT & T instead of Verizon.

In any case, there are a lot of pent-up demand for the iPhone to Verizon Wireless subscribers. I get e-mail all the time, readers are asked to me when I think, Verizon, may finally get the iPhone. Honestly, I have no inside information to know exactly when and if it will ever happen. But to say that AT & T is trying to extend exclusivity deal with Apple for the iPhone, and the fact that Verizon 4G network is unlikely to be available for portable devices, at least until 2011, I would say that anyone who holds Buy an iPhone in the hope that Verizon can get it in the next two years, should stop waiting.

My advice, just buy the current iPhone 3G, sign up for AT & T in a two-year contract, and if your contract is, perhaps, just perhaps, Verizon will have the 4G version of the phone. Of course, two years is a long time, when it comes to technology. Therefore, at the time of your iPhone contract ends, maybe even a refrigerator, coat the device on the market that the advantages of iPhone.

One thing is clear, Verizon said it wants to get a whole bunch of different devices at the current 3G wireless networks based on open development initiative and its new 4G wireless broadband network. These products include everything from medical Netbooks remote control device to the smart grid of sensors of electronic books and magazines readers.

On Friday the company released an initial technical specifications for these new devices so that they can work at a company soon to be built in 4G wireless networks.

Verizon also plans to hold a conference for Web developers on May 1 to discuss the details of the specifications of LTE, to answer questions and gather feedback. Verizon said that in the next stage in the company’s open development program.

Verizon Open Development Initiative, announced in 2007, and the program offers a “fast track” for companies that make devices and network applications for Verizon. Until now, the company said a number of devices have been certified, although there are no commercial cellular telephones that use the existing Verizon open network. Managers say this not because the device Maker came with the business model for selling their open development of devices and services.

Verizon plans to begin testing its 4G wireless network this year. And it will start building the network in several markets in the next year. The network uses spectrum it acquired in the 700MHz spectrum auction, and the company is obliged to make any part of the network expands use of the spectrum open.

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