How successful would a Verizon iPhone be?

I don’t think Verizon can compete. I’ve had Verizon for years and I’m sick of it. The commercials lie, because I can’t get service ANYWHERE. So they’d have to improve that before I’d buy a fancy new phone from them.

Very.

The iPhone is going to be popular no matter what, putting it on a good network like Verizon would only increase it’s popularity.

They would have to change the technology in the iPhone itself for it to run on Verizon, since verizon uses a different cellular technology (GSM vs CDMA). no doubt many people would like such a phone.

@squidcake that is interesting – I also have Verizon and the only place I’ve ever lost service is driving through a cornfield in western Michigan, and even then it was only for about 10 seconds!

Extremely. I would be one of the first to get one. Been waiting for this all my life! Well, not all my life, but ever since I first tried out the iPhone.

@goose756
Well apparently they’ve got signal everywhere else except where I live. And I definitely don’t live out in the boonies.

the iPhone will be popular with any provider, expanding access to it will only make it more so… now they just (apple and the phone companies) need to get a centralized data plan, true international access by default, and the ability for me to replace my own god damned battery!

Extremely. I have an AT&T phone and a Verizon phone just so I can keep in touch with people who deflected from Verizon for the iPhone. They all hate AT&T but are mac-nuts who had to have the iPhone. The only place I haven’t had service on my Verizon phone (Voyager) was at 9600 ft elevation up Mauna Kea. If I look at the AT&T phone wrong or stand between it and a window, I lose service.

I’d loooooove to drop AT&T like a bad habit!
Don’t know if Barizone is the answer… If Apple would simply concentrate on making the hardware and leave it carrier neutral, that would be the key in my opinion.

@Bagardbilla I agree. How cool would it be to be able to buy a phone and use it on any carrier? But that won’t be possible unless they all go to either GSM or CDMA.

Verizon doesn’t have a network ready for the iPhone, 25% of At&t users have the iPhone which is why their network is built for speed, the network has to be fast so all the iPhone users don’t get pissed off. All the verizon customers would get iPhones and significantly slow down the network. This is why verizons network has great coverage everywhere because they’re focusing on coverage while (because of the iPhone) At&t has to focus it’s network on speed to keep it’s customers happy. Thus the difference in the “maps”.

You mean the Droid?

I think it would do quite well.

FYI – I originally come from an area where AT&T isn’t an option., You’d have to drive >50 wiles to get any 3G phone to work, and even regular GSM only covered lesss than ¼ of the state. If you didn’t have a CDMA phone and the ability to do without frippery, forget cell phones period. Accordingly, I have to laugh a little when I see how dependent some people are on them. I guess some people have never left the urban metroplex since they were hatched, and/or I guess AT&T doesn’t care about anybody outside of city limits…..

@Barcybarce I think is more accurate to say that the reason 25% of AT&T customers have an iPhone is because >98% of iPhone owneers have AT&T. Besides, it’s been proven that the US has slower networks (both cell-phone and internet) with spottier coverage than any other first-world nation.