So Apple added Verizon as a carrier option and sales increased significantly. Will Apple add T-Mobile and Sprint as carrier options for iPhone 5/4S? Or will Apple stick with the big guys and leave the little fish for Google?
Together T-Mobile and Sprint have a similar number of customers to AT&T or Verizon. I think that is too big a market to ignore at this point in the game. The antenna issues for a single phone for all carriers in the US are not trivial, but if Apple can pull it off successfully the sales will be big.
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There is theoretically nothing stopping Apple from supporting the Sprint or Virgin Mobile networks on their CDMA model (the model I own).
GSM is another matter, since AT&T and T-Mobile use different bands for their 3G/HDSPA service. My suspicion is that Apple will release a dual-transciever GSM model that will work on all 3G/HDSPA networks, all over the world.
In any case, they will not be supporting Sprint's current 4G WiMax implementation. The future is LTE. As to when we will see LTE support in iOS, it won't be any time soon. The current chipsets are just too bulky to include in the successor to the iPhone 4. Surely they could add it to an iPad 2 successor, though.
GSM is another matter, since AT&T and T-Mobile use different bands for their 3G/HDSPA service. My suspicion is that Apple will release a dual-transciever GSM model that will work on all 3G/HDSPA networks, all over the world.
In any case, they will not be supporting Sprint's current 4G WiMax implementation. The future is LTE. As to when we will see LTE support in iOS, it won't be any time soon. The current chipsets are just too bulky to include in the successor to the iPhone 4. Surely they could add it to an iPad 2 successor, though.
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Keep in mind that AT&T is buying T-Mobile, and an unlocked iPhone can already work on T-Mobile, so having the iPhone officially on T-Mobile is certainly a possibility.
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