On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:39:02 -0800, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com>
wrote in <47bc48e3$0$36391$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>:

>Perhaps one reason Apple wanted Verizon so badly was because preventing
>the use of the phone on other CDMA networks would have been much easier.

Apple didn't want Verizon "so badly" -- it selected AT&T Wireless.
There are few other CDMA2000 networks of any significance.

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