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Wall Street Journal confirms iPhone coming to Verizon

by TJ Luoma Jan 7th 2011 at 6:00PM

Rumors of the iPhone coming to Verizon are almost as old as the iPhone itself, and earlier today we heard about a Verizon event next week, cleverly timed for 11 AM on 1/11/11.

That set off speculation across the Internet, but we paid special attention to when the Wall Street Journal confirmed the rumor, citing "a person familiar with the matter." The WSJ has a solid history and isn't prone to confirming without good sources, so it seems a sure thing at this point.

While Apple has not been involved in this announcement (the WSJ says Apple declined to comment), many people have noted that Apple has generally not been involved in the "second carrier" in any country getting the iPhone.

I will be glad to see the iPhone on Verizon for the same reason that I am glad The Beatles are finally on iTunes: so that people can stop talking about it and speculating about when it is going to happen. That said, I've paid enough attention to Verizon's customer service reputation that I'm not convinced that I would switch. Competition is almost always a benefit to customers, so I am hoping that the arrival of the iPhone on Verizon will give customers more choice about calling plans, data plans, and (heck, let me dream) more reasonable SMS pricing. Fingers crossed?



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Roland Fox

I was a loyal Verizon customer for several years. We live in one of those scary backwoods areas where 3G coverage is spotty. The only reason I switched to AT&T was the iPhone, but I'll be switching back to Verizon if this happens.

January 10 2011 at 10:28 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kyunglah2011

actually. Android *phones* have overtaken iOS *phones* in the US.

Cheat-Test 70-680

January 09 2011 at 8:13 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kyunglah2011

Good luck with that. Look up the 3DS battery life estimates and you'll se why it's a bad idea.

January 09 2011 at 8:11 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
gear

Where I live AT&T provides much better coverage than Verizon, so that settles the issue for me.

But One interesting issue I will be watching will be Skype on the Verizon iphone. AT&T only allows Skype over wifi which I find to be good because I can make Skype calls while in wifi range and use Cell towers when out of wifi range, and get by with a low minute voice plan.

Verizon however does not allow Skype to be used on their current phones over wifi forcing its users to use a larger (more expensive) voice / data plan for the same amount of calling time.

It will be interesting to see how Verizon forces this policy on Verizon iphones, or if they don't how they will handle their upset android customers who can't use Skype on wifi.

January 08 2011 at 9:12 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
JJ

1/11/11. 5 bars. Coincidence? I think not.

January 08 2011 at 4:10 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Jeff B.


Genius! Sergio Zyman, couldn't come up with that.

January 09 2011 at 7:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Baron Ren

White iPhone for Verizon. Have said so for 6 months.

January 08 2011 at 2:44 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ryan Sandberg

Still hoping for a Quad-Carrier Phone... I know, I'm probably dreaming. The sad thing is that if I don't hear anything about a T-Mo iPhone before this event, I'm probably dumping my iPhone for a Nexus S. I'm sick of having to wait for the dev team, and being stuck on EDGE. 4G, here I come...

January 08 2011 at 12:40 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Pieter

*YAAAWWWWNNNNNNN*

January 08 2011 at 12:22 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mystic

Prediction: Verizon iPhone 4 LTE!!!

January 07 2011 at 11:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
db2

"I will be glad to see the iPhone on Verizon for the same reason that I am glad The Beatles are finally on iTunes: so that people can stop talking about it and speculating about when it is going to happen."

THIS.

January 07 2011 at 10:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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akag9

Agree.

January 07 2011 at 11:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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