The iPhone 5 is rumored to be coming to Sprint's network as well as AT&T and Verizon in mid-October. The iPhone rumor mill is working over-time today. The Wall Street Journal
is reporting that the new iPhone 5 will be released in mid-October, and
will be coming to Sprint. This would be amazing news for Sprint, and
its 52 million subscribers, if it’s in fact true. Sprint will be
launching the iPhone 4 along side the iPhone 5, but at a discounted
price. The iPhone 5 will also be available on AT&T and Verizon, but
this will be the first time it will be available on Sprint.
This isn’t the first time we have heard rumors about the iPhone coming to Sprint,
but the previous rumor was surrounding only the iPhone 4, and not the
iPhone 5. Sprint has been losing subscribers pretty regularly as of late
and this is exactly what the carrier needs to help it compete with
AT&T and Verizon. Of the three carriers Sprint is currently the only
one that offers a truly unlimited data plan, which might help lure
customers away from the other two networks.
Interestingly there was no mention if Sprint’s iPhone will be
available with WiMax, its flavor of 4G, or if it will be a 3G only
phone. Unlike Verizon or AT&T, Sprint has been offering 4G service
for over a year and has several phones already equipped with the
technology so a 4G phone isn’t as much a novelty on Sprint as it is on
Verizon or AT&T.
The Sprint rumor comes hot on the heels of a rumor coming out of Reuters
which stated that the iPhone 5 would be released at the end of
September. It could have been a slight confusion between the dates the
phone was being announced verses the date it was being released. Either
way both rumors are very close in time, and only time will tell which
one, if either, are true.
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