This morning, live from Lincoln Center New York, Verizon Wireless is holding a special press conference where the company is expected to reveal, finally, the iPhone from Verizon. It is a movement to end the exclusivity of AT & T in the popular Apple's smartphone once and for all.
The event is organized by Lowell McAdam, president and COO of Verizon, and is likely to see Apple CEO Steve Jobs, grace the stage.
AT & T has been preparing for the loss of their exclusive rights to carry the iconic device to cut prices on the iPhone 3G, the reduction to only $ 49, obviously hoping to rope people in a cellular service contract before Verizon announcement.
AT & T and Verizon Trade Barbs
AT & T, which has been the only company with the iPhone than three years in the U.S. Has even begun to publicly dismiss the Verizon version of the phone. For example, AT & T spokesman Larry Solomon PR Business Insider posted the following statement yesterday:
"The iPhone is built for speed, but that's not what you get with a CDMA phone. I'm not sure iPhone users are ready for life in the slow lane."
He explained that the technology of AT & T GSM is faster than Verizon's CDMA technology.
This language exactly the same was released by AT & T, Mark Siegel said in a statement given to The New York Times.
Verizon then fought back, releasing a statement of its own:
"AT & T is known for many things, but the quality of the network is not one of them," said Jeffrey Nelson, spokesman for Verizon Wireless. "Usually companies try to draw attention to the strong demand."
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CDMA iPhone confirmed?
In particular, AT & T earlier statement merely confirms the existence of the iPhone for Verizon in itself but also its technical nature: CDMA, no LTE.
For those unfamiliar with the acronyms, CDMA Verizon is equivalent to 3G, while LTE 4G. (Although the term "4G" has become the marketing jargon for the "next generation high speed networks" - none of "4G" U.S. networks actually meet the requirements of the law).
That's an interesting detail about the iPhone from Verizon, as last week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2011) in Las Vegas, Verizon announced a series of LTE-capable phones, all of which run the Android operating system Google's mobile.
It seems that the choice of Verizon presented its smartphone buyers is: do you want an iPhone on Verizon, 4G or Android? Arguably, the alleged lack of 4G technology in the iPhone could make the decision more difficult for those who know and care about network speeds. However, that does not include general consumers.
According to Elisabeth Rainge, an analyst at IDC, "regular consumers think about the handset from the network." He asks, "if they build LTE, they're coming?"
Nielsen's latest survey reveals that the feeling itself was among many adults in the U.S.. The company asked more than 2,100 U.S. adults about 4G technology to measure consumer awareness and perceptions and purchase intent.
The results showed that while 83% were aware of 4G, half said they did not understand. And 71% reported that they were considering buying a 4G device in the next 12 months.
How many of AT & T deserters?
Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray, told New York Times that Verizon could turn up to 9 million iPhones this year, or up to 40% of total smartphone sales for the year. He said that up to 6.5 million which could be AT & T.
Meanwhile, Credit Suisse estimates that AT & T iPhone subscribers have 18,400,000 in 2010, of which 15. 9,000,000 (86%) will be under contract, according to the Wall Street Journal. And the analyst Jonathan Chaplin believes that Verizon signed up 9.6 million subscribers through 2012, 1.3 million of which will be AT & T.
The discrepancy in the figures show that even the analysts are uncertain about the effect this will have on the subscriber base of the two systems, but there will be one.
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