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WSJ: iPhone 5 coming to Sprint at the same time as Verizon and AT&T
Ricardo Trejo
Interesting how when blogs post rumors they’re taken with a grain of salt, whereas whenever the Wall Street Journal posts anything it’s pretty much taken as fact right then and there. I guess that’s what happens when you got your hands in all kinds of cookie jars and probably have plants and moles to feed you intel from afar. I’m just kidding. Anyway, today’s rumor/fact is that the iPhone 5 will be carried on Sprint very soon.
According to the WSJ, Sprint will be the next cell carrier to offer Apple’s iPhone:
“Sprint Nextel Corp. will begin selling the iPhone 5 in mid-October, people familiar with the matter said, closing a huge hole in the No. 3 U.S. carrier’s lineup and giving Apple Inc. another channel for selling its popular phone.
The timing, however, indicates Apple’s new iPhone will hit the market later than expected and too late to contribute to sales in the company’s fiscal fourth quarter, which ends in September. Most observers had expected the device to arrive next month.
Top U.S. carrier Verizon Wireless and No. 2 AT&T Inc. will begin selling the phone in mid-October as well, two of the people said. Sprint had more than 52 million subscribers at the end of the second quarter, compared with 106 million for Verizon and nearly 99 million for AT&T.”
It apparently doesn’t end there as we’re also hearing that Sprint will be getting the iPhone 4 too. I think this goes hand in hand with the idea of releasing a cheaper iPhone 4 along with the new and shiny iPhone 5.
