Verizon Wireless may pay to keep Sprint, T-Mobile away from Apple’s iPhone

Wow so many android fanboys around here. Let it go people every carrier should get every phone hopefully in time this finally happens. Everyone has different tastes in phones

My wife and 3 kids all have iPhones and love them but ATT service sucks ass – can never call and get through or if you’re lucky enough to get connected, can’t hear a word they’re saying. Will be jumping ship the minute Big Red launches. T-Mobile would be even better!

I see an iPhone surcharge coming to pay for this.

Hype it up…the only thing Apple knows how to do, and Verizon is playing right into their hands.
Sheeple….amazing.

Funny how Verizon Wireless pushes for zero regulation and boasts of plenty of competition in the wireless space when pressed about Net Neutrality….

Then info like this gets leaked out.

For all we know this could not be true but I would not put it past Verizon. It’s just not something that is flattering on their end. If they truly have nothing to fear from their smaller rivals (as their blind worshipers on this forum claim) then they would have no need to buy out Apple.

But I digress this is Verizon after all. The company that lies about overcharging customers for years then gets its wrist slapped after finally admitting it.

I love my MacBook but I know Apple really doesn’t give a flying f#%k about its customers. They are a for profit company and seem obsessed with margins by putting false premiums on their product line. Getting Verizon to pay an overly inflated price per device is what they like.

I say let the carriers compete on plan pricing (not fixed pricing). Let them woo us over by competiting. Let Apple and Google compete on a level playing field. If this rumor is true and Verizon Wireless gets their way, then the old stodgy Bells win another notch on their belts on competing how they know best; stifling others.

price fixing?

I don’t see the iPhone ever coming to Sprint for some reason.

This move would make sense as Verizon stands to loose the most of any carrier on its investment in Android. If iPhone were to be available on Sprint, T-Mobile, and ATT, Apple could do what they do best…Market. The combined power of three carriers and Apple together, could very well stall the growth of Android’s market share that Verizon has spent a lot of money on, not to mention Google and Motorola. Business wars!!

i hope Apple doesn’t do that exclusivity deal with Verizon, if it is true. It’s not right to limit consumers, who are tied into cell phone contracts, to only the phones they want. In a perfect world, cell phones would be as cheap as the “sale” price you buy it for from a 2 year contract, without ANY contract. That’s when I wouldn’t care about this article. Apple, let as many people enjoy your products as you can!!!!

I can’t believe people on Verizon (Apple lemmings excluded) would actually want the iPhone… especially those who love the fact that they get the best most fantabulous reception everywhere. Soon VZW customers will finally realize that it really is the phone, not the network.

… And this is completely unbiased. I have both VZW and AT&T for work. As much as I loved the iPhone 4 (including the two warranty replacements) as a device (key word) I had to get rid of it because the reception and dropped calls were terrible. I too blamed AT&T until I switched to their 9700 and had ZERO reception issues. It was like night and day. I never had any other device on AT&T besides Apple products (paid for by work) until the Blackberry, while I currently have the Fascinate on VZW. Now the differences in dropped calls and reception between the carriers where I work and play are negligible.

Unless Apple “magically” fixed their RF issues, good luck fellow VZW’ers.

No one would love to see the iPhone on another carrier then me… BUT enough of the rumors… we been hearing the iPhone was coming to Verizon for years.. and year after year it don’t… Why not report it when you have official news that its happening… not just speculation!

YAY please do that, faster speeds on Sprint for me as many will migrate to Big Red.

Hope this comes true. Had iphone 3g, 3gs and a 4 all were good devices for me. I switched to big red to get way better 3g coverage where I live. Like my droid x currently. But I might pick up an iphone on verizon

During the financial crisis, Verizon Communications received $1.5 billion in bailout funding. Why is that interesting? Because it came just two weeks after Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg said loudly that the company wouldn’t need one. On Oct. 14, Seidenberg said, “You’re not seeing the same liquidity issues and hue and cry coming out of the telecom industry that you’re seeing out of other industries.” Seidenberg even took a shot at the U.S. government, saying it “helped create a lot of really bad business models.” And then two weeks later, the government loaned Verizon $1.5 billion. Verizon said that it was “an extraordinary time,” adding that there was no credit available otherwise at the time.

Lets just say Verizon is going to get the Iphone. It will be a game changer for the simple fact it would be in Verizon smartphone lineup. They already changed the game with the Droids not Android you can get Androids on other carriers but not Droids. Thats where Verizon seperated their Androids from the rest. It sounds so much powerful and catchy then the rest. With the Iphone Verizon and Apple will market the phone just as effective and for the people who have been waiting for the Iphone for Verizon will flock to the stores like black Friday. Im sure there will be millions of customers activating an Iphone on Verizon in 2011 from all major carriers in the U.S.

that’s not fair,verizon suck.

this is really low, verizon and at and t are money hogs, i not paying their data plans,  i think sprint and tmo will get the iphone anyway. just saying. anyway , the quadcores will be out before you know it.

well T-Mo should be gone by Jan or Feb if the deal goes through.. so Sprint should be their only concern.