Apple MVNO rumors: part deux

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Mark0000 @ Jan 12th 2006 2:45PM

As much as I am a GSM (and Apple) fan, I think if they do this its going to be CDMA and it's going to be their own devices.

There's no point in them launching a regular ol' MVNO in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Their success would ride on not only iTunes on the go, but integration with the rest of the line up including the older apps in the iLife suite, the newer iWeb with photo RSS (camera phone could make that interesting), .Mac accounts, and obviously the computers themselves. To make all this work seemlessly, they would need fresh hardware and interfaces.

Whether they design and manufacture, design and farm out to a manufacturer like UTStarcomm/Panasonic/whoever, this would have to be APPLE hardware. Though I'm sure they could make a GSM system only work on their phones and not unlocked devices, this lack of interoperability of phones/networks is already embedded in CDMA technology. Ditto on their phones getting used on another carrier's service. On top of that, media and advanced web apps on phones means bandwidth, and despite Cingular's strides in HSDPA, the CDMA carriers have a leg up on nationwide high speed data.

But yeah, it sure is Apple, so who the hell knows...

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