Verizon Could Soon Serve Apple iPhone

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The price of wireless phone services declined each year from '99 to '08, despite reduced competition as the $150 billion industry consolidated, says the Government Accountability Office.

August 23, 2010

Groups representing broadcasters, musicians and record companies say they may ask Congress to require that new mobile phones include equipment to receive FM.

Verizon Could Soon Serve Apple iPhone

Verizon Wireless may finally be on the verge of getting the iPhone. According to a Wall Street Journal article, a new iPhone is in the works and that Apple "appears to be working on a model for U.S. mobile phone operator Verizon Wireless."

Apple currently has an exclusive wireless relationship with AT&T in the U.S. but patchy support has generated consumer indignation for some time with users across the country complaining of dropped calls and dead zones. When Apple unveiled the iPad in January, its decision to stick by business partner AT&T was perhaps the most shocking aspect of the tech giant's latest gadget. Apple and AT&T signed that three-year exclusivity agreement in June 2007.

The report is not exactly a surprise. Analysts and investors have long expected Apple to end the arrangement under which AT&T was the only U.S. carrier allowed to sell the iPhone. Some have factored the end of AT&T's exclusive rights into their forecasts for 2011.

(March 30, 2010)