 en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | reply to Howard Beale
Re: Apple will Stay with AT&T until LTE is Widespread Yes - I agree 100%. Until Apple has an LTE based chipset to deploy (HSPA/LTE, CDMA/LTE) then Apple will just keep on with GSM/HSPA chipsets. Why? Because of the global GSM/HSPA customer base. GSM globally is hitting 4 billion subscribers globally and growing at 500 million/year, while CDMA2000 (1x/EVDO) is at 500 million and not really growing at all.
Apple would be wise to keep on the GSM/HSPA/LTE path. I might suspect that VZW may be able to obtain an iPhone just for use on LTE only when it becomes available, if CDMA 1x/EVDO/LTE chipsets/manufacturing is beyond what Apple wants to pay for. |
