Verizon Wireless iPhone Deal: Analysts to Apple
Filed under: Cell Phone Information, Cell Phones | By: Peter Chubb
Posted on: October 3, 2009 | 37 Comments
The U.S. and the rest of the world are still in a recession so there is less money to go around, but that has not stopped consumer’s obsession with having the latest cell phone. It is no secret that the handset to have is the Apple iPhone, and if you thought that the king of the Smartphones was popular now, you wait until Apple finally lifts the exclusivity deal that it has with AT&T and allows Verizon Wireless to shift the units as well.
PC World reports that a Morgan Stanley analyst has been looking more closely at a Verizon Wireless iPhone deal, and thought that she would offer his own predictions. In a published report, it states that if Apple added Verizon in on the iPhone deal, then Apple’s shares would jump up from 4.9 percent up to 12.2 percent.
Kathryn Huberty is the analyst who has come up with these bold claims, she just wanted to make her case about how great the potential of an Verizon iPhone deal would be, not just for Apple and Verizon, but also for American cell phone users.
Huberty stated that when Orange had lost its iPhone exclusive deal with Apple in France, the iPhone’s market share rose by a massive 136 percent. If these finding are correct, then the same could happen in the U.S. and will shortly happen in the UK, as O2 have also lost its exclusivity deal with the iPhone.
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The day the iphone is on Verizon is the day my wife and I get one. Until then no iphone. Had ATT once b4 and they never do what they say they can. The iphone (the phone) needs to be on the network. Hello.
once they go with Verizon i will get the phone once it has the network to go with it
verizon has waited to long to get the iphone, already. the only reason my wife and i dont have the iphone is because verizon hasnt picked it up yet. The sooner the better!!!!!
Agree! My husband and I love the service we receive through Verizon. We’d also both love an iPhone, but not at the risk of crappy service. Come on Verizon!
ATT is better than Verizon. I’m happy all Verizon people will be able to get iPhones though.
Jordan, you must be smoking something wacky. I have tried many of the major cell carriers including Sprint, T-mobile, AT&T, and Verizon. I’ve used three of those carriers coast to coast. AT&T provided horrible service. The bill was always wrong! That being said, Sprint was even worse! Verizon had the best service while T-mobile had the best price. Have you used Verizon? If so where?
I would forfeit $200 to go back to Verizon if they offered the iPhone. AT&T coverage and services stink.
I love Verizon and will IMMEDIATELY get the iphone if they go with Verizon. We are on a family plan and EVERYONE - all 5 of us - will make that change!
I’m on the same page…my wife and I will both have an iphone as soon as it becomes available on Verizon. No way I’m going to AT&T, even though it kills me when I see my peers with an iphone. We use AT&T at work and there is no comparison with Verizon’s service that I get on my personal cell.
Come on Verizon…. I am a current Verizon member and I have the blackberry storm. I would trade right now for an iphone if I could keep Verizon. I had AT@T once… Never again! Not only was the network horrible, so was the customer so was the customer service. I was constantly over charged and had to fight with them every month!!!! Come on Verizon…
i’d buy it on verizon DAY 1. i’ve waited several years now, but my patience is running out. if verizon doesn’t get it in spring 2010 i’m switching to ATT
…me 2, if verizon does not get Iphone by 2010 I`ll switch 2 AT&T….sorry Verizon:(
I couldn’t wait any longer, so I switched to At&t. I hated the service and went back to Verizon. I loved the phone, but it wasn’t worth the horrible service At&t provided.