It kills me with giggles everytime I hear someone say "Verizon's network is better than others". Its all relative and perspective.
Case in point. My neighbor uses Verizon, I have an iPhone on ATT. We stand next to each other outside and have the same reception. Is his better than mine? Is mine better than his?
Nope, neither.
I do believe that Verizon has a larger coverage area, but I also believe AT&T has faster 3G speeds. I believe Verizon cannot do voice & data at the same time. I believe AT&T can do voice and data at the same time.
So which is better? Its all relative on where you're at and what you want. Where I'm at, I want data and voice at the same time. But if I lived in an area with bad AT&T coverage, I'd want Verizon if it had better coverage.
Saying in a general summation that one is better than the other, I believe thats merely opinion based upon your present perspectives.
Old school? Tin can and a string was out long before any GSM or TDMA or CDMA, etc. Of course its data rate was painfully slow.
Better is... yeah it's all relative to ones needs and perception. It all depends on where you are. GSM signal at my house isn't the greatest. It's crappy 1/2 the year when the trees take over and super fantastic when the leaves fall in the other 1/2 half of the year. Verizon works good at my house pretty much year round, but I've seen it's hiccups too. We have to remember there are other perspectives beyond their own and iceterminal you do us well to remind everyone of that.
Back to the original topic of this thread, I'll believe it when I see it. The only one who can tell is definitively is Steve Jobs and I'll wait for his announcement.
On the question of would Verizon refuse refuse the iPhone, they might. Two control freaks going after each other is never a Win-Win. I would be on seeing a CDMA iPhone on Sprint before Verizon. Verizon has a strong smart phone line up and doesn't need the iPhone and Jobs doesn't have quite as much clout.
