CDMA iPhone Being Readied for India
- October 13th, 2010
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Bringing more attention to the CDMA iPhone rumor, The Wall Street Journal has released another article stating that CDMA wireless providers Reliance Communications Ltd. and Tata Teleservices Ltd. in India are in talks to bring Apple’s iPhone to their networks. Again, citing sources “familiar with the matter” the WSJ says that this move could bring Apple’s popular device to the worlds fastest growing wireless market which is adding about 18 million users a month. A CDMA iPhone in India would help Apple compete in this market where they only held 1% of the market share in early 2010. In comparison, Nokia held 71% of the market share at the same time.
What does this mean for the rumored Big Red CDMA iPhone running on Verizon in the US? With this new information and speculation that the AT&T exclusivity deal on the iPhone in the US could last until 2012, it is possible that the large quantity of CDMA chips purchased by Apple from Qualcomm could be for use on a network outside the US rather than Verizon.
Same as before, all parties involved have declined to comment on this new information.

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