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Verizon Wireless to offer Apple iPhone in January

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Jun 30, 2010 / 07:06
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USA TODAY:

Verizon Wireless will start selling Apple‘s iPhone next year, ending AT&T’s U.S. exclusive on the phone, say two people familiar with the plans.

The device will be available to customers in January, according to the people, who declined to be named because the information isn’t public. Natalie Kerris, an Apple spokeswoman, and Jeffrey Nelson, a Verizon Wireless spokesman, declined to comment. AT&T also declined to comment. USA TODAY was unable to independently verify the reports.

Speculation on a Verizon iPhone has been rampant in the tech blogosphere. If the reports are true, the iPhone, which has been the sole domain of rival AT&T in the U.S. since June 2007, will give Verizon a boost in its smartphone competition, UBS analyst John Hodulik says. Verizon customers, who numbered 92.8 million at the end of the first quarter, may buy 3 million iPhones a quarter, he says.

FULL STORY: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2010-06-30-iphone30_ST_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

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