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Apple To Be New Mobile Carrier?

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According to Spanish site CanalPDA.com (translated) in an interview with Apple's VP of Mobile Platforms and Services business unit Albert Slope, Apple is lining up their ducks to be a new Mobile carrier.
"creating our own mobile carrier is the next logical step in our strategy of providing the Apple experience to the users of our products. We believe that existing carriers are not offering the flexibility not the performance consumers deserve, so we have decided to move forward, providing cellphone users a full, personal communications and information environent, with the user-friendliness that has become synonymous with Apple's products and services"

"On the other hand", says Slope, "the sucess achieved by the iTunes Music Store has shown us the way to go: by selling songs to consumers at $0.99 apiece, we have accumulated a valuable expertise that will be most useful for billing them talking minutes".
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According to the article, Apple's new mobile carrier will start operating as a MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator), using existing infrastructure to build a new brand.
 
Macrumors said:
According to the article, Apple's new mobile carrier will start operating as a MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator), using existing infrastructure to build a new brand.
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Vingle perhaps?

This is highly speculative but seems on the mark. The current trend from Google (and perhaps Apple) seems to be creating city-wide networks.
 
Confirmation !!

Macrumors said:
Apple is lining up their ducks to be a new Mobile carrier.
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I have it on the best authority that Apple is starting its own airline. They will start with flights from Cupertino to San francisco on Steve's very own Lear Jet. Apparently, the price of $9999 per ticket is being tossed around, but is yet unconfirmed.
Also, I read this note from Phil Schiller at an investor's meeting: "Well, it turns out that the lower power requirement claims from Intel were deceitful. In retrospect, we should have known, but we have found a silver lining [...] Computers will always need power, so power is the key here".
Indeed, Apple will start selling electricity to people all over California. Apparently Ken Lay applied for the job, and Jobs was heard saying "tempting... but, no!"

Finally, remember the 'toaster' comment about a year ago when Steve Jobs was bad-mouthing the video-iPod idea... Well, it seems he has been doing some soul-searching and is now willing to listen to consumers (even if it doesn't make sense, like wanting a video-iPod), so they will release an entire line of iPod-enabled, and even Mac-Mini-enabled kitchen appliances. However, due to size constraints, most of them will have a screen of .01 by .01 centimeters.

😛
 
Would be interesting, especially if they released their own line of phones

Jordan

P.S: would be less interesting if they released their own line of phones, that could only be used on their network.
 
I could see a joint venture with an established carrier however, I don't see Apple starting up their own network.
 
Apple as a CARRIER?! As in CONTENT PROVIDING SERVICE CARRIER?! Crazy... they would have to piggyback on an existing carrier; otherwise how could they compete with the major networks of Verizon and Cingular?
 
gwuMACaddict said:
the website is a joke! click on the link, people... 🙄
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Yes it is-

CanalPDA.com said:
April's Fools Day in December

In English / Servicios
Fecha: 28 dic 2004 - 04:25
Spanish-speaking readers are well aware that any news item dated on December 28 should be read with lots of skepticism. Those from the rest of the world will probably appreciate some explanation about our yesterday's scoop.

On December 28, most Spanish-speaking countries celebrate the Innocent Saints Day. Besides hanging little paper dolls from the back of victims' overcoats in the street, it is customary that newspapers and other media publish a fake and usually weird news item, as a joke to share with their audience.

Yesterday, CanalPDA.com joined this time-honoured journalistic tradition, posting a story about a supposed project by Apple Computer to become a mobile phone carrier. Of course, such information was completely false, to the point of including statements by an Albert Slope, Apple's VP of Mobile Platforms and Services, whose name was just the Spanish translation of CanalPDA.com's publisher, Albert Cuesta. Both Apple's project and the technical details in the story were completely faked by our editors.
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I would like to see the new Apple Motorola phone be available with other wireless networks. Especially Verizon Wireless.
 
It seems more likely that Apple would aquire an existing wireless company and improve on it, than start one from scratch. But this is mute anyway since that article is bogus.
 
Could be really cool! I wonder when they'll start offering their services.

*points and laughs at gwuMACaddict*
 
wdlove said:
I would like to see the new Apple Motorola phone be available with other wireless networks. Especially Verizon Wireless.
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I agree. I happen to be a T-Mobile customer and would love to be able to upgrade to a cellular phone with iTunes. 🙂
 
gwuMACaddict said:
just to reiterate... since apparently no one reads through the thread before posting...😕 🙄
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You see, this is what happens when threads come back from the dead. Then again, that's the third time it's been mentioned. 😉
 
Just like the time 2 years ago when I told everyone that Apple would be selling television programs over itunes people ridiculed me and made cruel jokes about my dog... I am sure at one point in time Steve Jobs had ideas of grandeur about becoming the next ma bell...life is short think forever.
 
OK...
I really doubt it would ever happen, BUT...
WHAT IF... the story from the link is true, but by writing it they violated some contract of some sort, and Apple forced them to cover the leak up by saying "they made it up." 😉
 
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