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Subject: Verizon and iPhone
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aemobile 28.10.09 - 05:24pm
According to Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon wants the iPhone, but Apple isnt offering it yet. More precisely:
This is a decision that is exclusively in Apples court. We obviously would be interested at any point in the future they thought it would make sense for them to have us as a partner. And so we will leave it with them on that score.
Seidenberg was speaking during Verizons Q3 financial results call, and dropped that little nuggest amid chatter about whole army of Droids, the Palm Pre, and 
Verizons own app store.
Of course, this is the also the man who last year, when asked how Verizon would compete with the iPhone 3G said:
Steve Jobs eventually will get old . . . I like our chances.
So maybe he doesnt like them so much anymore, even apres-attack ads?
Since Verizon still uses a different radio technology than the iPhone (CDMA/EVDO instead of GSM/EDGE/HSPA), declined to go HSPA like Bell and Telus in Canada (both of whom are getting the iPhone in a matter of weeks), and 4G/LTE is still a ways off, were not going to hold our breath (and you shouldnt either) for a quick Apple fix.
Weve already speculated what a Verizon iPhone might look like, but hopefully the Droid will prove how open theyre becoming, and the Verizon faithful will finally get their iPhone (with Wifi, App Store, open GPS, and without ugly trifold branding) sometime in the future *
