In a lengthy profile of the current CEO Ivan Seidenberg, Fortune confirm that Verizon will be getting the iPhone in early 2011, just like the WSJ and NYT
The next step, the iPhone, remains shrouded in secrecy, and neither company will discuss it. But people familiar with its development say it is a fait accompli. Verizon, sources say, will sell its own version of the iPhone 4, which will work on Verizon’s CDMA-based 3G network. Unfortunately for globe trotters, the first version of the phone likely won’t be built to work outside the U.S. — it probably won’t carry a special chip that can turn it into a “world phone.”According to the profile, Verizon turned down the opportunity to be the carrier for the first iPhone, but do want to have it on their network. They declined because the level of control insisted upon by Apple and the demands for revenue sharing from monthly customer fees were not agreeable between the two companies. The two companies
ceased talks then in 2007.Seidenberg broke the silence. In the spring of 2007, months before the iPhone launch, he secured an audience with Jobs at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., and asked, “Why are we in your doghouse here?” It turns out that for all of Verizon’s concerns about ceding control and sharing fees, Apple was wary of building a device for Verizon’s CDMA network because it didn’t use technology that allowed a phone to seamlessly operate around the world, as AT&T’s network does.After this meetings between the two companies occured and Apple came around to the idea of a CDMA iPhone, just as AT&T began receiving criticism for its network performance under the load of the iPhone. So 3 years of talks later, its reckoned the iPhone will makes it’s debut in 2011
All that’s left is to wait and see if it’s true, or just another rumor to add to the Verizon iPhone saga
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