Apple's iphone 5 Sprint Set to Join AT T and Verizon as Carrier



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Sprint is currently the third-largest wireless carrier in the country, behind Verizon and AT&T respectively. With more than fifty million customers, Sprint represents a huge new market for Apple and its wildly-selling iPhone. After launching the first iPhone handset exclusively with AT&T, Apple has continually moved to add new carrier partners to continue its push to become the number-one smartphone manufacturer in the world.


Interestingly, the United States was the first country to receive Apple’s iPhone in 2007, but the last to drop carrier exclusivity which only happened in January of this year with the launch of the CDMA iPhone 4 handset on Verizon. The rumor mill has been speculating that Sprint and T-Mobile were possible new carriers that would be on board following the launch of the iPhone 5; this new report from a source as reputable as the Wall Street Journalseemingly confirms it. As T-Mobile is currently in merger negotiations with AT&T, it’s likely that subscribers will have access to the iPhone in the future anyway.

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Sprint currently operates its cellular network using the same CDMA technology as Verizon. While this would indicate that Sprint should be able to sell the same iPhone 5 handsets as Verizon does, many reports suggest that Apple may do away with its multiple handsets instead offering a “world phone” capable iPhone 5 that can connect to nearly every cellular company’s network on the planet. A number of news outlets reported this week that app developers have seen an iPhone model like this one reported in app usage logs, so it’s likely that a single iPhone 5 handset will be offered to all of Apple’s carrier partners.

Receiving the hottest-selling smartphone on the planet couldn’t come at a better time for Sprint, a company that has seen its customers leaving in droves due to poor handset selection, and of course because they can’t get an iPhone. AT&T and Verizon have been quick to scoop up these lost customers; AT&T reported half-year sales of over 7 million iPhone handsets (iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4) through June 30, while Verizon sold about 4.5 million iPhone 4 handsets during the same time period.

Finally, a number of reports came out in the last day that suggest Apple may be planning to release a cheaper version of its iPhone 4 handset along with the next-generation iPhone 5 around the end of September. It’s currently unclear if this less-expensive handset would be offered to new carrier partners such as Sprint, or if it would only be offered to carriers that already sell the iPhone 4.

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As the release of the iPhone 5 nears, The Wall Street Journal reports Apple’s 25 million iPhone 5 plan. Apple is gearing up for the release of the iPhone 5 by preparing 25 million iPhone 5 phones. Apple has been placing huge bulky orders of iPhone 5 necessities such as cameras and batteries.

Rumors also have it that the iPhone 5 will be lighter and thinner than the iPhone 4.

Apple has been pressuring manufactures to speed up production, but the iPhone 5 is both “complicated” and “difficult to assemble” which is why Apple has forwarded their release date. The reports by The Wall Street Journal has also rumored that the iPhone 5 will include a new model of the wireless base-band chip developed by Qualcomm. Its been widely suspected that Apple will be moving to a “world phone” chipset which will enable use on both GSM and CDMA networks across the globe and simplifying the number of models that Apple needs to develop.


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