iPhone 3G S AT&T Exclusive: Verizon anyone?

I really want the iphone, but have a Verizon family plan. I don’t want to break off for just one phone. Soooo, I am hoping that in 2010, Verizon will get the opportunity to sell the iphone. I know lots of people who would buy it…including me.

Yes Verizon would be great! Please!!!! However current iPhone users are having the cost of their phone subsidized by AT&T over their 2 year contract, so why all the whining? Wait a year till your contract is up. By then Apple will hopefully open the phone to other carries.

Kevin

Let’s not hope. We need to contact Verizon and Apple and let the voices be heard. The only thing either care about is the dollar. If it would be good for both then it should work. AT&T is horrible with the crippling of features, but Verizon was not much different when I was with them. Competition will keep a few more dollars in our pockets.. let the iPhone out of the cage!! I don’t care if Sprint gets it (not that I would use Sprint). When I look at my cell phone bill every month and realize how crappy cell coverage is I cringe. My landline and pay phones would be a ton cheaper.. but, alas we crave convenience. So, don’t know who the bottle neck is with …but, both Verizon and Apple need to hear the voices and get busy with some phones.

Just wanted to put in my desperate PLEA for the iPhone to go Verizon!!!

It blows my mind how people sign a 2-year contract and then bitch about how they need to honor it. And Verizon still has the most crippled, limited phones around. I can’t see them suddenly opening up their networks to the iPhone.

I have two issues with this story. First, I don’t understand why people are acting so surprised at the way AT&T is handling upgrades to the iPhone 3GS which is to say, the way they and any other cell provider handles in contract upgrades. Why should it be any different just because were referring to the messiah of “gadgets”. If you signed the contract, you knew or should have known the conditions of the contract so grow up and accept what you signed. My second issue is all the Verizon love. I live and primarily use my iPhone in Central VA where Verizon has great service, but the highest prices of any cell provider in this area. There are currently no cell providers in my area who offer 3G and Edge is slow but reliably works and AT&T’s customer service at least locally is great.

I guess my point is that stop expecting AT&T to change it’s policies just because it’s the iPhone.

Yeah, me too.

It “seems” they know they have an exclusive contract? Wake up, of course they do! They are paying Apple huge subsidies per phone under the agreement, and they have to make money. People need to stop being so naive about what these companies “should” do to make things better for the customer. They will make things better for the customer when there is a good reason to do so. It’s pure economics, by which I mean not dollars and cents, but incentives: right now, there are really no incentives for them to behave otherwise, especially if the rumor of the iPhone soon becoming available on another carrier comes true. The companies with the exclusive contracts need to make as much money as possible off the iPhone now, and the device itself is attractive enough that they can do that. On another note, You say you “should have a choice who we would like to have our contract with”… you did have a choice: iPhone or not. To get it, you signed a binding contract agreeing to their terms. This was the price of admission you chose to pay, and At&T pays a lot for the exclusivity contract for the right to charge that price. You are free to leave at any time, under the terms of the same legally binding contract. You need to quit whining about being required to honor a contract you signed under your own free will.

You gotta ask… why would Apple NOT go to verizon?

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me too!

I agree with the view that iphone should not be limited to one carrier. It is not because one carrier is better than others, but because lot of people like the phone and they need to have a choice in the matter. One carrier controlling the iphone or any other popular phone would behave in a monopolistic fashion and try to squeeze every dollar they can get. But again that wish is not good for a carrier. Every carrier is coming up with their own killer phone and hoping the business will come to them. If not them phones, then what’s the selling point? customer service?

I really hope the iPhone comes to Verizon Wireless, I have the Dare and I’m sick of Verizon’s crappy software on all the phones. I’ve been waiting for the iPhone or at least another cool phone like the Pre to come to Verizon.

I would love if it came to Verizon, but it won’t. Even if the contracted ended today, Verizon wouldn’t get it. Verizon uses CDMA the iPhone is GSM (what AT&T uses), and it would require that Apple completely redesign the iPhone (even if it looked the same on the outside, there are strict requirements for CDMA phones). Plus Apple would never let Verizon put their crappy software on the iPhone. There is a good chance the Pre will come to Verizon, so thats our best hope.

I jailbroke my iPhone because ATTs plans for 1 person cost more than what we have for a family plan on verizon, so I think that verizon should continue to work with their new 4G system so it can be fast with the iPhone if it’s supposed to be slow. What I like about verizon is that they give you reasonable prices and they are even more reliable than ATT. But Apple should go with both because it’s ridiculous to have to switch networks for a phone. So I pray that they go to Verizon in 2010 cuz otherwise verizon cuzcomers have to wait until 2012!

Same here man!

Why would they not join Verizon, it is the best damn carrier.

I absolutely agree, I have wanted the iphone ever since it came out, but am currently contracted with verizon and I absolutely love their service and am not willing on cancelling for the iphone, just have been waiting patiently hoping they have the opportunity one day to carry the iphone themselves, and I will continue to wait.

Being a Verizon customer myself, I would love to see the iPhone pair with Verizon, however one has to think about cause and effect. Right now AT&T has exclusivity with the iPhone and therefore they have the capability to charge whatever price they want and put any stipulations they want into the contract. If you want the iPhone bad enough and you sign the contract, then you agree to the stipulations and cannot break that without consequence. Furthermore, as an existing contract holder, you are not automatically eligible for an upgrade just because the phone gets upgraded. As with ANY other carrier, if you want a new phone and are out of contract, then you get a discount, otherwise you pay full price.
Back to cause and effect…
If Apple was to pick up Verizon as a carrier for the iPhone, either company could end up having to spend millions just to make the phone compatible with the network. Why would Apple want to spend millions on redeveloping an already great product simply to be compatible with a different carrier? On the other hand, why would Verizon want to spend millions to change their network when it is already faster than most other networks? It’s just not worth it to either company at this point to make the change. The fact is, there is no middle ground and as long as AT&T has exclusivity, people will have to live with whatever price and contract agreements AT&T throws at them if they want the iPhone. The only way us Verizon customers will be able to touch an iPhone any time in the near future will be to either switch to AT&T, or borrow from our friends. There’s no way around it.

First people with contracs sign them so honor the contract. Second iPhone uses gsm along with the rest of the world it would be smarter to have the iPhone on gsm so the don’t have to make several diffent models it saves apple money. And if AT&T stays excuslive past 2010 then wait for verizon to go lte which is gsm and then pay the high dollors for a unlocked iPhone.

I live in an area where no one provides a strong signal but I work in a city that is just the opposite. I love Verizon service for many reasons all based on AT&T and Sprint contracts I’ve had in the past. My contract with Verizon is up and I could jump to AT&T for it’s I-Phone exclusivity but I won’t. AT&T has always treated it’s cash cows as every monopoly has, poorly. Their safe position in the market made them last to inovate (example – DSL which had a connection in every home before cable was ever unrolled). I’ll wait and be happy knowing that I-Phone will come to Verizon. It is freeing to not be bound by a contract but it is frustrating that Apple choose this approach to getting it’s product to market.

I want one but i cant afford a $90 plan! I’ll so buy with EITHER Verizon or T-mobile