Then tell us why "Steve" Wanted Verizon with there CDMA ?

Your so full of shit.

"Oxford" <colalovesmacs@smart.com> wrote in message
news:colalovesmacs-DE8273.21025817102007@mpls-nnrp-05.inet.qwest.net...
> "IMHO IIRC" <NOSPAM@NOSPAM.NOSPAM> wrote:
>
>> > 3) the iPhone is on all of the top 5 carriers within 2 years.
>> >
>> > 4) Apple and Google team up and buy their own part of the wireless
>> > spectrum and do an end run around all cell carriers.
>> >
>> > 5) and many more...
>> >
>> > most likely is No. 3 of course.... if those companies can modernize
>> > enough to support Visual Voice Mail and very high bandwidth devices.
>>
>> Why do you need high bandwidth? I thought everything was done with WiFi.
>
> 80% of it is, but even AT&T choked when all the iPhones first came
> online. The data infrastructure of cell firms is way behind firms like
> Apple. They hide behind slow 2.5 / 3G networks currently, but once they
> get a taste of unlimited 802.11g they are going to falter unless they
> plan for the future. They are geared for tiny sized voice transmissions,
> not huge data loads that come with all the wonderful features of the
> iPhone.
>
>> How long does ATT have an exclusive on the iPhone in the US? I thought
>> it
>> was 5 years.
>
> Yes, it's 2 years. So it's hard to say what will happen in 18 months of
> course. Steve has the upper hand now, so he can play ATT like a fiddle
> for better pricing, or play them off Verizon which is desperate for the
> iPhone contract, etc.
>
>> Also the iPhone is only GSM - is Apple also designing one that is CDMA?
>
> currently CDMA is like bad cable internet, it's good for the most part
> but it's shared and at peak times your calls sound like crap.
>
> so considering Steve is a no-nonsense kind of guy CDMA might not ever
> make the cut.
>
> we'll see.