said by Nightwchtr :

Even if they did say an IPhone was going to Verizon, I still wouldn't take it. There data plans and cell plans are the highest in the industry. I don't need it that badly, or I will wait till a CDMA IPhone comes out (Hopefully, lol).

said by iLive4Apple :

Sprint is supposed to get it end of Q3 this year so it should be right around or before that time.

said by vv1r3d :

Sprint will not be getting the iPhone:
1. They can't afford it (revenue sharing with Apple would kill them faster)
2. They can't support it (poor support teams)
3. at&t signed another exclusivity deal good through 2012
4. Sprint will be focusing on the Palm Pre
5. Apple is already in talks with Verizon for alternative phones and devices

Do I really need to go on? Maybe you should read Engadget Mobile or Boy Genius Report more often.

said by patcat88 :

Swappable SIMs doesn't mean open devices. Verizon Wirless can block all IMEIs that don't belong to Verizon Wireless LTE phones. "Its illegal to have a non-Verizon Wireless LTE device on VZW LTE network since there is no proof the handset has passed E911 certification (and it has the FBI backdoor to silently read the GPS chip) and is FCC compliant, and no proof the handset is ADA compliant (FCC Rules), or it had a SAR test, or is UL Listed.

All this means is that you can swap VZW branded LTE handsets and transfer your phone book legitimately without paying VZW to do so at a VZW store or with a Get-It-Now app (lets ignore PSTs and BitPim).

Also if VZW doesn't monitor/patrol the IMEIs, people will be putting WAP and PDA data plans on their PCMCIA Aircards.

said by sameshtdd :

How is this dissimilar to how GSM phones work in the US? Don't GSM phones that want to use US frequencies have to go through FCC testing?

said by hottboiinnc :

Okay well if you think that about the UK then why are the cell companies in Canada then GSM?

said by hottboiinnc :

VZW having the better network on average?!?! According to WHO? JD Power? Okay well if you think that about the UK then why are the cell companies in Canada then GSM? Every other country for the most part is GSM except the USA where we still use CDMA technology for everyone except 2 providers.

CDMA is an expensive technology and has outlived its lifetime. Instead of VZW and Sprint and Alltel banking their money on that and now waiting to build out they should have transferred everything to GSM.

ATT is the largest provider in the USA to be GSM and it works for them. It also works for T-Mobile. GSM also has better quality as far as calls.

We can also note that the US providers are also behind again. As to even TEST their LTE while Sprint is busy off building their network with Clearwire and other countries are busy building out their new networks as well.

said by Techie09 :

This is why we are moving to OFDM based technology which further builds upon the efficencies found in CDMA and W-CDMA solutions.

said by Techie09 :

Many people have a deep misunderstanding of CDMA compared to the GSM based TDMA technology which is more widely used today than its much discussed W-CDMA 3G replacement. When U.S. carriers adopted CDMA IS-95 and later CDMA2000, it was because it was spectrally far superior to TDMA based GSM variants of the early 90s. Not many years later, ITU-T adopted W-CDMA (IMT-2000) to ultimately replace their aging TDMA 2G solutions, but not before CDMA had already gained a foothold in the U.S.

Bottomline, in the 90s the technology decision for CDMA and many years later, EV-DO, was far superior to GSM and EDGE\GPRS technologies being built. That changed in the late 90s with IMT-2000 (W-CDMA), but by this point many U.S. carriers were down the road to building out CDMA networks and was beyond the point of no return to change strategy.

Obviously in the 21st century, technology has improved beyond the older CDMA and W-CDMA technologies of the past. This is why we are moving to OFDM based technology which further builds upon the efficencies found in CDMA and W-CDMA solutions.